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Edward Ruscha
(born 1937)
Palm Tree #1
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Edward Ruscha (born 1937)
Palm Tree #1, 1971
Gelatin silver print, printed 2003; signed, dated and numbered '4/8' in pencil on the verso, a Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, label on the frame verso.
10 x 10 in. (25.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Gelatin silver print, printed 2003; signed, dated and numbered '4/8' in pencil on the verso, a Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, label on the frame verso.
10 x 10 in. (25.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Footnotes
This photograph is included in Ruscha's series Three Palm Trees as well as his book A Few Palm Trees, both made in 1971. A variant of Palm Tree #1 in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2004.586) notes that Ruscha took this photograph from the south side of Chula Vista Way between Bronson and Tamarind Avenues in Hollywood.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private collection, Los Angeles
Acquired by bequest from the above to the present owner