Hot Property: Ed Ruscha lists Malibu house for $7.15 million
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Hot Property
American pop artist Edward Ruscha has listed his Malibu beach house for $7.15 million. Ruscha, whose work is ranked with that of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, owns other properties in Los Angeles and considers the city his home.
The 2,948-square-foot Point Dume beach house he hopes to sell has six bedrooms and five bathrooms, divided among an updated three-bedroom one-story main house and two detached guest structures. The property comes with Point Dume private beach rights, a secluded pool, several patios and a mature garden. The home is also available for lease at $14,500 a month. I'm checking beneath my sofa cushions right now for spare quarters.
Ruscha, 70, became well known for his paintings, collages and photographs in the early 1960s. His first solo exhibition was at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1973. He taught as a visiting professor at UCLA in 1969.
Many of his works incorporate words and phrases. He has published more than a dozen photographic books, several of them about Los Angeles.
Barry Sloane of Sotheby's International Realty, Beverly Hills, and Christopher Cortazzo of Coldwell Banker, Malibu, share the listing.
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