Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

Christ Candle

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Christ Candle

signed and dated 1987 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

71 ¾ by 72 in.

182.2 by 182.9 cm.

Executed in 1987.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 269)

Acquired from the above in February 1988 by the present owner

Bill Berkson, "Conversation with Ed Ruscha," Shift, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1988, p. 17 (text)

Hunter Drohojowska, "Ruscha Today: Veteran L.A. Painter Makes It Big," L.A. Style, Vol. VI, No. 1, 23 June 1990, p. 220 (text)

Riki Simons, "Highways and Hollywood," Cult Magazine, 1990, p. 10, illustrated

Ed Ruscha et. al., Leave Any Information at the Signal, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 278-79, illustrated 

Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, no. P1987.32, pp. 330-31, illustrated in color

Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988: The World of Art Today, May - August 1988, no. 56, p. 43 (text) and p. 104, illustrated

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions; London, Serpentine Gallery; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Ruscha, December 1989 - February 1991, no. 40, p. 65, illustrated in color (Paris); no. 36, p. 91, illustrated in color (Rotterdam, London, and Los Angeles); no. 36, p. 113, illustrated in color (Barcelona) 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995, p. 2 (text)

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2002, April 2003 - March 2005 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, February - April 2011 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Literary Devices, October 2014 - March 2015 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Intuitive Progression, August - November 2017