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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Two Paintings: Sleeping Muse, from the Paintings series

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September 26, 03:56 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Two Paintings: Sleeping Muse, from the Paintings series

signed, dated '84 and inscribed AP 4/11 (lower right)

woodcut, lithograph and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper

image: 34 ¾ by 45 ⅞ in. 88.4 by 116.7 cm.

sheet: 37 ⅞ by 38 ⅞ in. 96.2 by 124.3 cm.

Executed in 1984, this impression is one of 11 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3392, (another example illustrated in color online)

Mary Lee Corlett, ed., The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2002, p. 185, no. 203 (another example illustrated in color)