Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Tapestry (Study)

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Modern Tapestry (Study)

signed (lower right); variously inscribed (in the margins)

printed paper, marker, ink, graphite, and paint colour swatches on board

53.5 by 67 cm. 21 by 26⅜ in.

Executed in 1967.

David and Mitchell Lichtenstein (acquired as a gift from the artist circa 1968)

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC D-276, LC D-428)

James Goodman Gallery, New York

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in May 1991)

Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich (acquired in 1992)

Christie's, London, 1 July 2010, lot 199 (consigned by the above)

E & R Cyzer, London (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in November 2011 by the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, no. RLCR 1471, illustrated in colour (online)

New York, The School of Visual Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: Collages, October 1976

Valencia, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Roy Lichtenstein at CalArts: Drawings and Collages from the Artist's Collection, April – May 1977, no. 18, p. 61, illustrated (titled Design for Modern Tapestry)

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, March – May 1991, no. 1, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled Collage for Modern Painting with Classic Head)

(Possibly) New York, A/D Gallery, Modern Tapestries, 1967: Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and Robert Indiana, February – April 1999

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