Roy Lichtenstein

New Born

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150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

New Born

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

patinated bronze

31 by 41 by 9.6 cm. 12¼ by 16⅛ by 3¾ in.

Executed in 1988 and fabricated in 1989, this work is the artist's proof aside from the edition of 6.

Estate of the artist

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Andrea Theil, Ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, no. RLCR 3766.0/6, illustration in colour of another example (online)

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

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Figuratively Speaking, July - August 1996 (another example exhibited)

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 1998 - October 2001 (extended loan) (another example exhibited)

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, April 2002 - October 2006 (extended loan) (another example exhibited)

London, Gagosian Gallery and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June - October 2005, p. 85, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein: The Popular Image, November - December 2014 (another example exhibited)

Miami, Moore Building, Pop Minimalism, Minimalist Pop, December 2018 (another example exhibited)