Lot 120
  • 120

ROY LICHTENSTEIN | Hologram Interior (Study)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Hologram Interior (Study)
  • signed and dated '96 on the reverse
  • colored pencil and graphite on paper 
  • image: 4 1/4 by 3 7/8 in. 10.8 by 9.8 cm.
  • sheet: 9 7/8 by 10 in. 25.1 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 2002

Exhibited

Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Recent Drawings and Sculpture, November - December 1997, cat. no. 15, pp. 34-35, illustrated in color 
New York, Richard Gray Gallery, Thirty-Five Drawings, November - December 2001, pp. 45 and 47, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The top, left and right edges of the sheet are deckled. Under close inspection, a horizontal indentation to the sheet is visible 1-inch below the top edge, light skinning to the paper is visible along the bottom and some minor graphite smudges from the time of execution are visible in the margins, all of which are obscured by the top mat. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat at each corner. Framed under Plexiglas.
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