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Lot 678 Property from the Collection of Elizabeth Brooke Blake
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Cycle
Closed16 November 2017
Price Realised
USD 564,500
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"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).
(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).