Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)
Lot 236 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)

City Boy

Closed7 March 2019

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GBP 395,250

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Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)
City Boy
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1990' (lower right)
acrylic on paper
image: 26 x 36in. (66 x 91.2cm.)
sheet: 30 x 40in. (76 x 101.5cm.)
Executed in 1990

Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles.
Carlos Cisneros Collection, Miami.
His sale, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 12 November 2002, lot 124.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I am not a big fan of meaning. Logic is also another nebulous thought. I attempt to bring threads of subjects, however shaggy, to my work and inject little suggesters to the picture itself, and this often puts a smile on my face.’
– Edward Ruscha