Live Auction 17651Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Lot 827 The Clarke Collection

Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)

Corrosive Liquids

Closed14 November 2019

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USD 187,500

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Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Corrosive Liquids
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1973' (lower left)
gunpowder and graphite on paper
14 ½ x 23 in. (36.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

James Meeker, San Diego
Monk and Pamela White, Dallas
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe
Bette and Herman Ziegler, New York
Ikkan Art International, New York
Meredith Palmer Gallery, New York
Galerie Andy Jillen, Zürich
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Greenberg van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“I like the idea of a word becoming a picture... almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again,"
- Ed Ruscha