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Ed Ruscha

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signed E. Ruscha and dated 1970 (lower left)

gunpowder and pastel on paper

11 ½ by 29 in.

29.2 by 73.7 cm.

Executed in 1970.

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Ed Ruscha
Me

signed E. Ruscha and dated 1970 (lower left)

gunpowder and pastel on paper

11 ½ by 29 in.

29.2 by 73.7 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Provenance

Contract Graphics, Houston

Collection of Ann and Edward Hudson, Fort Worth, Texas (acquired from the above in 1971)

Sotheby's New York, 28 September 2023, lot 23 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Contemporary American Art: Los Angeles (from Fort Worth-Dallas Collections), January - February 1972

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004 - May 2005, p. 17 and pl. 92, p. 134, illustrated in color

Literature

Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London 2000, n.p., illustrated in color 

Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven 2014, no. D1970.57, p. 271, illustrated in color