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Surface to Structure: Works from the Collection of John Kaldor

Roy Lichtenstein

Peanut Butter Cup

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Peanut Butter Cup

titled (on the overlap); signed and dated '62 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

35.6 by 35.6 cm. 14 by 14 in.

Executed in 1962.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC#59)

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris

Acquired from the above in 1964 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Roy Lichtenstein, June 1963

Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, December 1995 – March 1996, p. 8, illustrated, n.p. (checklist)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pop to Popism: Origins to New Wave 1955-1985, November 2014 – March 2015, p. 303 (checklist)

Daniel Thomas, “The Art Collectors 10: John Kaldor,” Art and Australia 8, no. 4, March 1971, p. 314 (text); p. 318, illustrated (installed Woolwich, New South Wales, Kaldor House); p. 321, illustrated

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, RLCR 714, illustrated in colour (online)