Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Lot 678 Property from the Collection of Elizabeth Brooke Blake

Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)

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Closed16 November 2017

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USD 564,500

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Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Cycle
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1970' (lower left)
gunpowder and pastel on paper
11 ½ x 29 in. (29.2 x 73.7 cm.)
Executed in 1970.

Contract Graphics, Houston
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"I soaked some gunpowder in water once, and I saw it separated from the salt out of it. I just did it as an experiment. The gunpowder itself is in granules. I could see it would make a good choice of materials; it could actually impregnate on paper."
(P. Kaulstrom, " Interview with Edward Ruscha in his Western Avenue, Hollywood Studio" in Ed Ruscha, Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interview, Bits, Pages, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002, p.155).