Psychedelic-Indian-Guru-New Mexico-Fadeout-Photo-Realism

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Psychedelic-Indian-Guru-New Mexico-Fadeout-Photo-Realism
signed and dated 'Edward Ruscha 1976' (on the reverse)
pastel on paper
22 7⁄8 x 29 1⁄8 in. (57.6 x 73.9 cm.)
Executed in 1976.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1977

Literature

Art in America 66, no. 5, September-October 1978 (illustrated on the cover).
E. Ruscha, Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings by Edward Ruscha, New York, 1980, p. 71, pl. 61 (illustrated).
R. C. Morgan, "Pastel, Juice and Gunpowder: The Pico Iconography of Ed Ruscha," Journal: A Contemporary Art Magazine, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art 3, no. 10, September-October 1981, p. 31.
Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Paintings 1966-1969, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 1993, p. 108.
E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
M. Gayford, "So I Keep Rolling Along," Modern Painters, Winter, 2001, p. 80.
L. Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 434, no. D1976.51 (illustrated).
T. McGlynn, "Ed Ruscha/Now Then," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2023, www.brooklynrail.org [accessed 10.10.24].

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, September 2023-October 2024, pp. 205 and 321 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“There’s a kind of art that I was peeved with back in the ‘70s, and I came up with this way to describe it. I said to myself, “Psychedelic Indian Guru New Mexico Fadeout Photo-Realism”. Somehow that little containment of words said everything I wanted to about a style of art that seemed to be going on at the time, so I made a drawing on it.” Ed Ruscha (E. Ruscha in M. Gayford, “So I keep Rolling Along,” Modern Painters, Winter 2001, p.80.)

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