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Roy Lichtenstein
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Reflections: Portrait of a Duck (Study)
- colored pencil and graphite on paper
- image: 4 1/4 by 5 in. 10.8 by 12.7 cm.
- sheet: 10 1/8 by 13 7/8 in. 25.7 by 32.2 cm.
- Executed in 1989.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein: Reflected, September - October 2010, n.p., illustrated in color
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, September 2014 - January 2015, cat. no. 195, p. 177, illustrated in color
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, September 2014 - January 2015, cat. no. 195, p. 177, illustrated in color
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact the Contemporary Department at (212) 606-7254 for a professional condition report prepared by Alan Firkser of Paper Conservation Studio, Inc. Framed under glass.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"The Reflections in fact picture natural phenomena (reflected light) interfering with our experience of cultural matter (the just recognizable images beneath). They mix and mash, in other words, [Leo] Steinberg's terms, betraying the manner in which visual experience is itself an operational process, and our perception of nature always built from a layering of cultural references and codes. As Lichtenstein commented in 1996, nearly a decade after he began the Reflections: 'cartoonists have used diagonal lines and slash marks to tell us they are rendering a mirror and we have come to accept these symbols;' conversely, when one has seen his or her share of Lichtenstein's Reflections, natural effects themselves begin to appear through a distinctly Lichtensteinian lens. If such ideas and imperatives had been central to his practice since the 1960s, it was first in the 1980s that Lichtenstein—a cultural institution himself by that point—began to explore them with such adamant inventiveness, humor, and self-referentiality."
Graham Bader, "Painting Reflection" in Exh. Cat., New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein: Reflected, 2010, p. 54