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Ed Ruscha

I Might Just Act Ugly If You Get Up on That Stand and Say Something Unpleasant to My Ears

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


I Might Just Act Ugly If You Get Up on That Stand and Say Something Unpleasant to My Ears

signed, titled and dated 1997 (on the reverse)

bleach on rayon-covered board

50.5 by 40.5 cm. 19⅞ by 15⅞ in.

framed: 53.5 by 43.3 cm. 21 by 17 in.

Executed in 1997.

Gagosian, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 237th Summer Exhibition, June - August 2005

Robert Dean and Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Five: 1993-1997, New York 2012, no. P1997.20, p. 320, illustrated in colour

Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London 2003, p. 175, illustrated in colour

Kevin Hatch, "Something Else: Ed Ruscha's Photographic Books", October, Winter 2005, p. 122, illustrated

Edward Ruscha, Nels Cline and David Breskin, Dirtybaby, Munich 2010, no. B29, n.p., illustrated in colour