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Property from the Toby Devan Lewis Collection

Ed Ruscha

Gray-Black Sex

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Toby Devan Lewis Collection

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Gray-Black Sex

signed, titled and dated 1979 (on the verso)

pastel on paper

23 ⅛ by 29 ⅛ in.

58.7 by 74 cm.

Executed in 1979. 

Livet Reichard Company, New York

Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2004 by the present owner

Lisa Turvey, Ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977-1997, New York 2018, cat. no. D1979.49, p. 105, illustrated in color

New York, Cable Gallery, Sex, December 1984 - January 1985