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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Lot 101 Depth of Field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Eye #3

Closed12 May 2023

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USD 340,200

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Eye #3
signed, inscribed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1967 gp' (lower left)
gunpowder on paper
7 7/8 x 9 7/8 (19.5 x 24.6 cm.)
Executed in 1967.

Alexandre lolas Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 October 1973, lot 60
Muriel Wolgin, Philadelphia
Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Danvers, Massachusetts
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005

Specialist note

"…if you look at a word long enough, it begins to lose its meaning." (E. Ruscha, quoted by U. Wilmes, “Once Upon a Time in the Present,” in R. Rugoff et. al. Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 2009).