Lot 219
  • 219

Richard Pettibone

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Pettibone
  • R Lichtenstein, Masterpiece 1962
  • signed, titled and dated 1975 on the overlap
  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, in artist's frame
  • 7 3/4 by 7 1/2 in. 19.7 by 19.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1975, this work is from an unnumbered edition.

Provenance

Robert Henry Adams, Chicago
By descent to the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery; Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum, Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective, April 2005 - May 2006, p. 76, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges of the artist's frame. There is a spot accretion in the extreme left of the female's hair. Under very close inspection, some faint craquelure visible. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed in artist's frame.
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