Artist:
Ed Ruscha
Artwork:
You Know The Old Story
Size:
33.3 x 56.6 cm
Medium:
Gunpowder and pastel on paper
Creation year:
1975
Marks:
Signed and dated 'Edward Ruscha 1975' (on the reverse)
Category:
Drawings
Provenance:
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Private collection, Vancouver; Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 February 1990, lot 163; Private collection, Geneva; Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 15 May 2002, lot 104; Barbara and Peter Benedek, California; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; Eykyn Maclean, New York; Acquired from the previous by the present owner
Exhibition history:
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art,Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips©, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004-May 2005, n.p., pl. 120 (illustrated).
Christie's New York
Date:
2019-11-14
Lot Number:
826
Low Estimate:
$300000
[-43%]
High Estimate:
$500000
[-65%]
Hammer Price:
$170000
Sold For:
$212500