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Lot 228
  • 228

Roy Lichtenstein

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Untitled Reflection
  • signed and dated '89 on the reverse
  • oil and magna on canvas
  • 24 by 17 in. 61 by 43.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1989, this work will be included in the Catalogue RaisonnĂ© being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Cynthia Drennon Fine Arts, Santa Fe
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1995

Exhibited

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Collects: A Visual Feast of Promised Gifts and Bequests; Selections from the Dani and Jack Sonnenblick Collection and the Isadore Friedman Collection, January - April 2005, p. 10, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling at the edges and corners. There are a few scattered accretions which fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light inspection. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"Lichtenstein conveyed  the notion that all art and life is a series of reflections and illusions, a notion that was wonderfully evoked by Lewis Carroll in a passage near the beginning of Through the Looking Glass: 'In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-Glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away brightly as the one she had left behind...Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible. For instance the pictures on the wall next to the fire seemed to be alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece had got the face of an old man and grinned at her.'" Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections, Milan, 1999, p. 47