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Roy Lichtenstein

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