Live Auction 20985Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Lot 464

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Street Greed

Closed18 November 2022

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USD 252,000

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Street Greed
signed and dated ‘Ed Ruscha 2005’ (lower right)
acrylic on paperboard
16 1/8 x 30 in. (41.1 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 2005.

Gagosian Gallery, London
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, London, 2 October 2019, lot 10
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“Ruscha’s words hover between the flat, transversal surfaces of the graphic artist and the longitudinal, deep-space world of landscape painting” (K. Brougher, Ed Ruscha, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2000, p. 161).