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A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Archaic Head

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November 19, 06:30 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein 

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Archaic Head

incised with the artist's signature, date '88 and number 0/6 (on the base)

patinated bronze

58 ¼ by 19 by 10 ¼ in.

148 by 48.3 by 26 cm.

Executed in 1988, this work is the artist proof from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures, 1976-1989, May - July 1989, no. 32, p. 83, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August - October 1992, n.p., illustrated (another example illustrated)

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, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 267, p. 336, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July - October 1998, p. 180, illustrated in color (present example)

London and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June - October 2005, pp. 81-83, illustrated in color (present example)

Houston, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein: American Pop, March - August 2006 (another example exhibited)

Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 80, n.p., illustrated in color (traveled to all except Paris) (present example)

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century, April - June 2014, no. 15, p. 73, illustrated and p. 75, illustrated in color (present example)

Heather Smith Maclssac, “Primary Space: Roy Lichtenstein Paints in Broad Strokes in His Renovated Studio,” House and Garden, Vol. 163, No. 7, July 1991, p. 72, illustrated in color

Phyllis Braff, “Lichtenstein Sculpture: Full View,” New York Times, 16 August 1992, p. 1, illustrated 

Simonis Zaifiropoulou and Roy Lichtenstein, “Painting the 'clichés' of everyday life," Nέεs Enoxέs, Athens, 26 March 1996, p. 9, illustrated in color

Matthias Steinhart, “Ein Spiel mit der Antike: Das Werk Roy Lichtensteins lädt ein zur archäologischen Betrachtung," Antike Welt: Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte 37, January 2006, no. 3, p. 73, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., La Triennale di Milano and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010, no. 153, p. 344, illustrated

Philippe Daverio, Roy Lichtenstein, Milan 2011, p. 71, illustrated in color

Hal Foster, "The Hardest Kind of Archetype," Reflections on Roy Lichtenstein, Edinburgh 2011, no. 9, p. 19, illustrated in color

Germano Celant, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, Milan 2013, no. 165, p. 205, illustrated 

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3692, illustrated in color (online)