Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Roy Lichtenstein

Woman Reading

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Woman Reading

signed and dated '80 (on the reverse)

oil and acrylic on canvas

54 by 70 in.

137.2 by 177.8 cm.

Executed in 1980.

The Mayor Gallery, London

Private Collection, Basel (acquired from the above in November 1980)

Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zürich (acquired from the above)

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in September 2017 by the present owner

Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, Chicago, 2006, no. 7.17, p. 360, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Milan, La Triennale di Milano, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, 2010, p. 270, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Paris, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein: Expressionism, 2013, no. 65, p. 121, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, “Woman Reading, 1980 (RLCR 2990),” Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2024 , illustrated in color (online) (ongoing)

London, The Mayor Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, Recent Paintings, October - November 1980

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice et les Années 60, June - October 1990

Norway, Høvikodden, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter and Denmark, Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Pop Art from the Lilja Collection: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Dine, February - April 1991, p. 33, illustrated in color

Ishøj, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Amerikanske Mestervæker fra Lilja Samlingen: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, June - September 1999, p. 34, illustrated in color

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Pop Art: Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist – Collection Lilja, October - November 1999

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, November 1999 - September 2002 (extended loan)

Zürich, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Pop Up - Warhol Lichtenstein Wesselmann, May - July 2014, no. 4