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Roy Lichtenstein

Half Face with Collar

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May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

(1923 - 1997)


Half Face with Collar

signed and dated ‘63 (on the reverse)

oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas

48 by 47 ¾ in.

121.9 by 121.3 cm.

Executed in 1963.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York [LIC #107]

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris

E. J. Power, London (acquired from the above in May 1964)

Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin (acquired from the above in 1972)

Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in November 2008)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in May 2010)

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New Brunswick, Student Center, Douglass College, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Music and Arts Week-end, April 1964

Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Figuratie defiguratie: De meneselijke figuur sedert Picasso, July - October 1964, no. 161, p. LXII (text) and p. 173, illustrated

New York, BlumHelman Gallery, POP: Classic Works, 1962-1967, March - April 1982

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 55, p. 58, illustrated in color and p. 59 (text)

Turin, Palazzo Cavour, Lui in galleria: da Warhol al 2000: Gian Enzo Sperone: 35 anni di monstre fra Europa e America, October 2000 - January 2001, p. 32, illustrated in color and p. 100 (text)

Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art, August 2003 - February 2005, no. 15, p. 45, illustrated in color and p. 138 (text)

Alberto Boatto and Giordano Falzoni, eds., Fantazaria: Lichtenstein 1, No. 2, July - August 1966, p. 53, illustrated

Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1971, no. 58, p. 93, illustrated and p. 244 (text)

Gian Enzo Sperone, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Schifano, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Turin 1975, n.p., illustrated in color 

Jean-Pierre Keller, Pop art et évidence du quotidien, Lausanne 1979, p. 121, illustrated 

Ernst A. Busche, Roy Lichtenstein: Das Frühwerk, 1942-1960, Berlin 1988, fig. 150, p. 241, illustrated 

Tony Hendra, Brad '61: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, New York 1993, pp. 32, 75, illustrated in color and pp. 95-96 (text)

Michael Juul Holm and Poul Erik Tøjner, eds., Louisiana Revy, Roy Lichtenstein, Vol. 44, No. 1, August 2003, no. 15, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 77 (text)

Mary Gibb, "Pop Art: Then and Now," Collections: International Art and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004, p. 38, illustrated in color

Jonathan Jones, "Comic Stripped," The Guardian, 6 January 2004 (text) (online)

"Roy Lichtenstein," Studio International, 6 July 2004, illustrated in color (online)

Graham Bader, Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s, Cambridge 2010, pp. 97, 114 (text)

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, 2024, p. 126, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 770, illustrated in color (online) (accessed 24 April 2026)