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Burning Gas Station by Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

Burning Gas Station, 1965

Oil and graphite on canvas
52.1 x 99.1 cm (20.51 x 39.02 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
2.3%
CAGR
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 Nov 2007)
$******

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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 13, 2007
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale28
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Burning Gas Station
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

52.1 x 99.1 cm (20.51 x 39.02 in)

Materials

oil and graphite on canvas

Signature

signed E. Ruscha, verso; dated 1965-66, verso

Provenance

Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles Dr. and Mrs. Judd Marmor, Bel Air Richard Gray Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Irving Blum Gallery, Edward Ruscha: L.A. County Museum on Fire, 1968. Newport Beach, Balboa Pavilion Gallery, Joe Goode and Edward Ruscha , 1968, n.p. (illustrated). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art New York, Whitney Museum of American Art Vancouver Art Gallery San Antonio Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Works of Ed Ruscha, March 1982-May 1983, p. 74, pl. 41 (illustrated). Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Detroit Institute of Art, The Automobile and Culture, July 1984-January 1985. Lyon, Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Edward Ruscha, October-November 1985, p. 33 (illustrated). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pop Art and Minimalism 1960-1975, 1991. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in California, Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, October 2000-February 2001. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pop! From San Francisco Collections, March-September 2004.

Literature

U. Kultermann, The New Painting, New York, 1969, p. 99 (illustrated). J. Morris, "L.A. Turnoff," Rolling Stone , 1976, p. 26 (illustrated). R. Marshall, Edward Ruscha: Made in Los Angeles, exh. cat., Museo National de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2002, p. 31 (illustrated in color). R. Dean and P. Poncy, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1958-1970, vol. I, New York, 2003, pp. 206-207, no. P1966.02 (illustrated in color).