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ED RUSCHA
(B. 1937)
Waves of Advancing Technology, 1983

12 – 23 September 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Waves of Advancing Technology, 1983

signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1983' (lower right)
dry pigment on paper

23 x 29 in.
58.4 x 73.7 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance
James Meeker
Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles and Mark Kelman, New York

Exhibited
Los Angeles, Cirrus Gallery, This is Not a Connection, 21 November 2015-12 March 2016

Literature
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London: Phaidon, 2000, n.p., illustrated in color
Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977-1997, New York: Gagosian, 2018, p. 164, n. D1983.15, illustrated in color

The creative collaboration between Jean Milant and Ed Ruscha is the stuff of legend. Creating prints with outside-the-box materials like Pepto-Bismol and caviar, the relationship between the two artworld giants certainly advanced the technology of printmaking, along with their deep friendship. The present lot is a prime example of Ruscha's profound transformation of word into image and masterful dry pigment technique, as well as a testament to Milant's impeccable taste.

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