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Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Cover Image (The Gun in America) for Time Magazine (Study)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Cover Image (The Gun in America) for Time Magazine (Study)

graphite on paper

16 ¼ by 12 ¼ in.

41.3 by 31.1 cm.

Executed circa 1968.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner






Paul Bianchini, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, no. 68-5, p. 194, illustrated

Camila Molina, "O pop que desennou a América, O estado de S. Paulo, 20 September 2005, p.D3, illustrated

Novaes, "Wham! Blam! Pow! Roy," Folha de S. Paulo, 20 September 2005, p. E1, illustrated

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1519, illustrated in color (online)

New York, School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Gallery and Ithaca, Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein, November 1971 - November 1972

Paris, Centre Beaubourg, Centre National d'Art Contemporain; Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie and Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Roy Lichtenstein: Dessins sans bande, January - September 1975

Coral Gables, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Roy Lichtenstein, March - April 1976

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; Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996

New York, Ubu Gallery, The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art, January - March 1996

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Vida animada | Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 30, illustrated