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

Roy Lichtenstein

Ocean Motion

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October 9, 07:38 PM GMT

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120,000 - 180,000 USD

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Ocean Motion 

signed and dated '66 (on the reverse)

Rowlux, painted paper collage, vinyl, wood and motor, in artist’s chosen welded aluminum frame  

22 ⅜ by 26 ⅛ in.

56.8 by 66.4 cm.

Executed in 1966.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1969 - August 1970, no. 112, p. 100

New York, Seagram Building, Art Gallery, Contemporary Landscape, February - April 1979

North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001

Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Pinacothèque de Paris, Lichtenstein: Beginning to End, February - September 2007, no. 1, p. 42, illustrated in color

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky, August - October 2015, no.10, p. 51, illustrated in color

John Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1972, no. 56, n.p., illustrated

Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin, La Fonction critique dans le Pop Art américain, Montreal 1980, no. 45, n.p., illustrated

Graham Bader, “Emptied Gesture: Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Brushstrokes,’ Artforum International, vol. 49, issue 10, summer 2011, p. 351, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 4, p. 55, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1266, illustrated in color (online)