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Lot 41
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Roy Lichtenstein

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Untitled Head 1

  • incised with the artist's signature, date '70 and number 59/75 on a plate affixed to the underside

  • brass
  • 25 1/2 by 9 by 6 in.
  • 64.7 by 22.9 by 15.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1970, and fabricated by Gemini G.E.L., this work is number 59 from an edition of 75.

Provenance

Gemini G. E. L., Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Castelli Graphics, Roy Lichtenstein: New Editions, Lithographs, Sculptures, Reliefs, September - October 1970 (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Multiples: The First Decade, March - April 1971 (another example exhibited)
The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, A Selection of 20th Century Three-Dimensional Portraits and Related Drawings, November 1984 - January 1985 (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August - October 1992 (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio De Bellas Artes, Salas Nacional Y Diego Rivera; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art (as Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture & Drawings, cat. no. 34, pp. 57 and 96, illustrated in color); Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; La Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Roy Lichtenstein, Escultura, Pintura Y Grafica, July 1998 - August 2000 (another example exhibited)
Washington D.C., The White House, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House - Exhibition V, 1997, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, Winter 2006, 2006 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Gregorio Magnani and Daniel Buchholz, International Index of Multiples: From Duchamp to the Present, Cologne, 1993, p. 124 (another example)

Condition

Recently polished by professional restorers. Finish on the base has been abraded and is now a slightly different tone (can be repaired by replating).
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