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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Post-War Contemporary Evening Sale | 58 | $****** - ****** | Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish | |||
Nov 4, 1987 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art (Part I). Sale No. 5628 | 74 | $****** - ****** | Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish |
paintings
149.9 x 139.7 cm (59.02 x 55 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1965' (on the reverse); titled and dated again '"Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish 1965"' (on the stretcher)
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York. Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. François de Menil, New York.
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1987, lot 74. Peder Bonnier, New York. Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles.
Private collection, Japan.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, Edward Ruscha, October-November 1965. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Edward Ruscha: Matrix 16, February-April 1976. Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Other Works by Edward Ruscha, June-July 1976, pp. 7 and 12 (illustrated in color). New York, C&M Arts, Ed Ruscha: Birds, Fish and Offspring, April-June 2002, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, 13 May 2002, p. 18. R. Dean and P. Poncy, eds., Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970, New York, 2003, pp. 190-193, no. P1965.12 (illustrated in color). R. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London, 2003, p. 137 (illustrated in color).
