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Burning Gas Station by Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

Burning Gas Station, 1969

Oil on canvas
51.1 x 99.1 cm (20.13 x 39 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (11 May 2023)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 11, 2023
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale20A
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Burning Gas Station
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

51.1 x 99.1 cm (20.13 x 39 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed, titled and dated '"BURNING GAS STATION" 1966-1969 E. Ruscha' (on the stretcher)

Provenance

James Sowell, Texas

Donald Marron, New York

Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York

Ira Young, Vancouver, 1988

James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1991

Exhibited

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Other Works by Edward Ruscha, June-July 1976, p. 17 (illustrated).

Literature

R. Dean and P. Poncy, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970, New York, 2003, pp. 280-281, no. P1968.12 (illustrated; titled and dated as Burning Standard, 1968).

Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, exh. cat., London, Hayward Gallery, 2010, p. 17, fig. 12 (illustrated; titled and dated as Burning Standard, 1968).

C. Tutwiler, Ed Ruscha, Vik Muniz and the Car Culture of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 2011, p. 9 (illustrated; titled and dated as Burning Standard, 1968).

Description

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Burning Gas Station

signed, titled and dated '"BURNING GAS STATION" 1966-1969 E. Ruscha' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

20 1/8 x 39 in. (51.1 x 99.1 cm.)

Painted in 1966-1969.