Live Auction 22044Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Lot 102 Depth of Field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Pools

Closed12 May 2023

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USD 693,000

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Pools
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1970' (lower left)
gunpowder and pastel on paper
11 1/2 x 29 in. (29.2 x 73.7 cm.)
Executed in 1970.

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Timothea Stewart
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Private collection
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005

Specialist note

"I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again." (E. Ruscha quoted in, C. Tomkins, “Ed Ruscha’s L.A.,” The New Yorker, July 1, 2013).