
Property from an Esteemed Private Collection
Imperfect Painting
Auction Closed
March 4, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Imperfect Painting
signed and dated '86 (on the reverse)
acrylic, oil and pencil on shaped canvas
159.5 by 203.2 cm. 62¾ by 80 in.
Executed in 1986.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC#1003)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in May 1986)
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey (acquired from the above in February 1987)
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2000, lot 336 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Missouri (acquired from the above)
Christie's, London, 1 July 2008, lot 181
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Nice, Villa Arson, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Tableaux Abstraits, July – September 1986, p. 121, illustrated in colour (installation view)
Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Leo Castelli at Gagosian, December 1986 – January 1987
Montclair, Montclair Art Museum, Passionate Pursuits: Hidden Treasures of the Garden State, September 1996 – January 1997
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichenstein: Perfect/Imperfect, 2002, p. 55, illustrated in colour
Marilyn Satin Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich 2010, no. 141, p. 138, illustrated in colour
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, RLCR 3568, illustrated in colour, online