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Lot 225
  • 225

Roy Lichtenstein

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Collage for Leda and the Swan
  • signed and dated '68
  • acrylic, graphite and black felt tip marker on paper
  • 23 3/4 by 43 1/4 in. 60.3 by 109.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1968, this work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonnĂ© being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Provenance

Gunther Sachs, London (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, London
Private Collection, San Francisco
Hirschl and Adler Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1989

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet has yellowed slightly with age. There is a 2 3/4 inch tear 14 inches from the top edge extending from the left edge which is obscured by the frame. The sheet is 34 by 54 inches. Hinged verso to the matte intermittently along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I feel that his [Roy Lichtenstein's] best work is generally work in which there is this contradiction between cool in the treatment and soul in the subject-matter- as against the still lifes, the landscapes and the parodies of Jazz Age ornament. It is a contradiction that corresponds to one of our most needed mechanisms of defence: to joke about what we mind most about." - David Sylvester (American Vogue, September 1969)