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Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Leda and the Swan (Bathtub Panels) (Study)

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Leda and the Swan (Bathtub Panels) (Study)

signed with the artist's initials (lower right)

graphite and coloured pencil on paper

19.5 by 57.5 cm. 7⅝ by 22⅝ in. 

framed: 39.4 by 76.3 cm. 15½ by 30 in.

Executed in 1968.

Patricia Hills, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist by 1970)

Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1989, lot 325 (consigned by the above)

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Julie and Edward J. Minskoff, United States

The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired in January 1992)

The artist and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (acquired in September 1993)

Private Collection and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City (acquired in 1997)

Estate of the artist (acquired in 2009)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Paul Bianchini, Ed., Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, no. 68-8, p. 196

William H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude: A History in Art, New York 1974, p. 201, illustrated

Andrea Theil, Ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, no. RLCR 1545.1, illustrated in colour (online)

New York, New York Cultural Center and Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Three Centuries of the American Nude, May - September 1975, no. 10-9, p. 201, illustrated

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Twentieth Century Master Drawings from Massachusetts Collections, July - September 1979

Evanston, Terra Museum of Art; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Centre; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art and travelling, Twentieth Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context, April 1984 - May 1985, no. 52, p. 83, illustrated

New York, Lorence-Monk Gallery, Drawings, April - May 1991