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Roy Lichtenstein

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Auction Closed

November 17, 10:15 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


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incised © rf Lichtenstein, dated '84, numbered 3/6, with the foundry mark (on the base)

painted and patinated bronze

48¼ by 42 by 10 in.

122.6 by 106.7 by 25.4 cm.


Executed in 1984, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner 

Exh. Cat., New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculpture 1976- 1989, 1989, p. 15 (text); pp. 70-71, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein, 1993-1994, p. 327 (text); pp. 334-335, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art (and traveling), Lichtenstein: Sculpture & Drawings, 1998-2000, no. 98, pp. 17, 34-35 and 53 (text), p. 149, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., La Triennale di Milano (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, 2010, pp. 246-247, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, 2013, no. 127, n.p., illustrated in color

Los Olivos, Douglas S. Cramer Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Art from the Douglas S. Cramer Collection, May 1987 - May 1988 (another example exhibited)

Stockholm, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Imperfect, October - November 1988, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculpture 1976- 1989, 1989, p. 15 (text) and pp. 70-71, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects: The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s - 1980’s, 1990, p. 67, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 265, p. 335, illustrated in color, and p. 327 (text) (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art (as Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, revised and expanded); Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém (as Roy Lichtenstein: Imagens Reconhecíveis), Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 1998 - August 2000, p. 165, illustrated in color, and no. 48, p. 149, illustrated in color (Washington D.C.) (another example exhibited)

Milan, La Triennale di Milano and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010, pp. 246-247, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Mostly Men, September - October 2010, p. 25, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, 2013, no. 127, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)