Listen If You Ever Tell...

2007

Ed Ruscha

Artist, American, born 1937

Erik Beehn

Printer, American, born 1979

James Reid

Printer, American, born 1948

Aili Schmeltz

Printer, American, active early 21st century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

Ed Ruscha

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L., LLC and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.53 × 39.37 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.23.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Engberg 1999, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 2015-2017.

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 2091.

Inscriptions

lower center on plate: Listen If You Ever / Tell I'll Hurt Your / Mama Real Real Real / Bad / This No Joke I'm After You Stupid Punk; lower left corner in graphite: S.P. 1/10; lower right corner in graphite: Ed Ruscha 2007; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: ER06-1535

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Published by Gemini G.E.L. LLC / Los Angeles, California / © 2007 Ed Ruscha and Gemini G.E.L. LLC

Wikidata ID

Q76439269

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