Property from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Ed Ruscha
Gasoline Stations (8 photographs)
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October 23, 06:16 PM GMT
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50,000 - 70,000 USD
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45,000 USD
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Property from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Ed Ruscha
b. 1937
Gasoline Stations
(Los Angeles: Self-published, an edition of 25 plus 8 artist's proofs) 8 (of 10) gelatin silver prints, each flush-mounted, stamped with the title and edition '1/25' on the reverse, framed, Fisher Landau Center labels on the reverse; together with the printed title page, signed, dated and editioned ‘1/25’ in pencil, and gray linen portfolio box with orange lettering
images to: 8⅛ by 17¼ in. (20.6 by 43.8 cm.)
frames: 21 by 24½ in. (53.3 by 62.2 cm.)
Executed in 1962, printed in 1989.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collections of Emily Fisher Landau and Anne E. and M. Anthony Fisher, October 1998 - November 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Legacy: Selections from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to The Whitney Museum of American Art, June - September 2011
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Legacy: Photographs from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to The Whitney Museum of American Art, November - March 2014
David Hickey and Peter Plagens, The Works of Edward Ruscha (San Francisco, 1982), p. 33 (Standard Amarillo, Texas illustrated)
Yve-Alain Bois, Edward Ruscha: Romance With Liquids, Paintings 1966-1969 (New York, 1993), p. 20, (Self Service Milan, New Mexico illustrated)
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 (Minneapolis, 1999), p. 53-55, nos. 187-196
Ed Ruscha (Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2000), p. 29 (Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas; Knox Less, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma illustrated)
Sylvia Wolf, ed., Visions from America: photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. 36 (Standard, Amarillo, Texas illustrated)
Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha (London, 2003), pp. 66-7
The individual plates are as follows:
Shell, Daggett, California
Phillips 66, Flagstaff, Arizona
Texaco, Jackrabbit, Arizona
Dixie, Lupton, Arizona
Self Service, Milan, New Mexico
Standard, Amarillo, Texas
Knox-Less, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fina, Groom, Texas
This group is lacking the prints of Flying A, Kingman, Arizona and Union, Needles, California, as originally issued with the portfolio.
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