Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Proceeds to Benefit the John and Patty McEnroe Foundation

Ed Ruscha

You Cannot Be Serious

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Proceeds to Benefit the John and Patty McEnroe Foundation 

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


You Cannot Be Serious

signed and dated 2008 (lower right)

acrylic on museum board

24 by 27 ⅞ in.

61 by 70.8 cm.

Executed in 2008.

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Colin Gleadell, "John McEnoe: when McEnroe met Warhol," The Telegraph, 21 June 2008 (online)

Colin Gleadell, "McEnroe loves art? You cannot be serious," The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June, 2008 (online)

Mick Brown, "John McEnroe: still seriously competitive," The Telegraph, 4 December 2012 (online)

Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on PaperVolume Three: 1998-2013, New York, 2023, no. 2008.25, p. 220, illustrated in color