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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2010 | Phillips | New York | The Halsey Minor Collection | 12 | $****** - ****** | Angry Because It's Plaster, Not Milk |
paintings
139.7 x 121.9 cm (55 x 47.99 in)
oil on canvas
Signed and dated E Ruscha 1965 on the reverse; titled and dated Angry Because It Is Plaster, Not Milk' 1965 on the stretcher.
Collection of the artist
Gagosian Gallery, London
Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, 1965; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 25 - May 30, 1982; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, July 7 - September 5, 1982; British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 4 - November 28, 1982; The San Antonio Museum of Art, December 27, 1982 - February 20, 1983; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 17 - May 15, 1983, The Works of Edward Ruscha; Santa Monica, James Corcoran Gallery, Animal Farm, January 15-February 26, 1994; New York, C&M Arts, Birds, Fish and Offspring, April 25- June 8, 2002; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles 1955 - 1985: Birth of an Art Capital, March 8 - July 17, 2006; London, Gagosian Gallery, Pop Art Is..., September 27-Ocotober 2, 2007
J. Krementz, Happening: Photographed in Los Angeles, Status/Diplomat, New York, 1967, p. 66 (illustrated); San Francisco Museum of Art, ed., The Works of Edward Ruscha, New York, 1982, p. 68 (illustrated); C. Rickey, Ed Ruscha, Geographer, Art in America, New York, 1982, p. 84 (illustrated); S. Kalil, The Works of Edward Ruscha, Houston Post, 1983, p. 23F; J. Fiskin, Trompe l'Oeil for Our Time, Art Issues, Los Angeles, 1995, p. 28 (illustrated); G. Gordon, Wallwashers for Warhol, Lighting Design and Application, December 2001, p. 29 (illustrated); Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, New York, May 13, 2002, p. 18; R. Smith, Art Review: A Painter Who Reads, A Reader Who Paints, The New York Times, May 24, 2002, p. B33; C&M Arts, ed., Ed Ruscha: Birds, Fish and Offspring, New York, 2002, pl. 3 (illustrated); T. McDonough, Ed Ruscha at C & M Arts and Gagosian, Art in America, September 2002; P. Poncy, Edward Ruscha : Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings : Volume One, 1958-1970, New York, 2003, p. 179 (illustrated); C. Grenier, ed., Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Paris, 2006, p. 149 (illustrated); Gagosian Gallery, ed., Pop Art Is..., London, 2007, pl 59 (illustrated)
