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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction | 13 | $****** - ****** | Securing the Last Letter (Boss) |
paintings
149.9 x 140 cm (59 x 55.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1964 (on the stretcher)
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Ed and Audrey Sabol, Villanova, Pennsylvania (acquired by 1967)
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# ER 13)
Acquired from the above in February 1988 by the present owner
Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, Edward Ruscha, October - November 1964
New York, Pace Gallery, 5 at Pace, March 1965, p. 5, illustrated
Philadelphia, Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, How the West Has Done! A Wild West Show, March 1966
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940, September - November 1986, p. 82, illustrated
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; Palm Springs Desert Museum; New York, Neuberger Museum, State University of Purchase; and Phoenix Art Museum, L.A. Pop in the Sixties, April 1989 - August 1990, no. 82, p. 133, illustrated in color and p. 136
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary Art, May - June 1995, p. 30
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art, Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art, October 1996 - May 1997
Philadelphia, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pop/Abstraction, February - April 1998
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Edward Ruscha, 2001
London, Hayward Gallery; Munich, Haus der Kunst; and Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, October 2009 - September 2010, pp. 90, 185, illustrated in color
New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Ace Radio Honk Boss, October 2018 - January 2019, no. 10, pp. 18, 21, illustrated in color and p. 19, illustrated in color (detail)
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022
Nancy Marmer, "Reviews: Edward Ruscha, Ferus Gallery," Artforum , December 1964, vol. 3, p. 12
Irving Blum, "The Antic Art of Edward Ruscha," Los Angeles Magazine , 1968, p. 32, illustrated
David Bourdon, "A Heap of Words About Ed Ruscha," Art International , 1971, p. 26, illustrated
Patricia Failing, “Ed Ruscha, Young Artist: Dead Serious About Being Nonsensical,” ARTnews , vol. 81, April 1982, p. 78
Ed Ruscha, Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages , Cambridge, 2002, p. 231
Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, The Gershman Y, A Happening Place: How the Arts Council Revolutionized the Philadelphia Art Scene in the Sixties, 2003, p. 18, illustrated in color (detail)
Pat Poncy, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970 , New York, 2003, no. P1964.13, pp. 146-147, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha , London and New York, 2003, p. 42-43, illustrated in color
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman , New York, 2016, p. 25, illustrated in color (in installation)
John Thomason, "Norton"s New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine , 16 March 2022, illustrated in color (online)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective , September 2023 - January 2024, p. 159
Ed Ruscha
(b. 1937)
Securing the Last Letter (Boss)
signed, titled and dated 1964 (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
59 by 55 1/8 in. 149.9 by 140 cm.
Executed in 1964.
