Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Is Selling Off His Entire Art Collection, Including a $3 Million Ed Ruscha - via artnet news

Ed Ruscha

location: Los Angeles, California
year born: 1937
gender: male
nationality: American
home town: Omaha, Nebraska

about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)

The fashion designer is selling off all the art inside his West Village townhouse at Sotheby’s New York to make way for a new collection.

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