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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Table

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October 9, 07:51 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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35,000 USD

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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 -1997


Modern Table

incised with the artist's initials and stamped with the number 12 (on table leg)

brass and tinted glass

18 by 58 by 58 in.

45.7 by 147.3 by 147.3 cm.

Conceived circa 1969 and executed in 1970, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition, June - August 1970 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Deco, October 1970 - September 1971 (present example)

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work, 1965-1970, November - December 1978, illustrated on the back cover (another example exhibited)

New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, Home Work: Paintings, Sculpture, and Furnishings, December 1985 (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, July - 1998 - August 2000, no. 36, p. 99, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Lucio Pozzi, “Leo Castelli: l’arte migliore è seguita solo da pochiss,” Bolaffiarte, vol. 4, issue 34, November 1973, p. 35, color illustration of another example (in collector’s home) 

Robert Pincus-Whitten, “The Best of the Best,” House and Garden, vol. 158, issue 4, August 1986, pp. 140-41, color illustration of another example (in collector’s home)

Steven M. L. Aronson, “Architectural Digest Visits: Leo Castelli, The Legendary Art Dealer’s Fifth Avenue Collection,” Architectural Digest, vol. 52, issue 10, October 1995, pp. 142-43, color illustration of another example (in collector’s home) 

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1807, color illustration of another example (online)