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

Roy Lichtenstein

Untitled Head II (Prototype)

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Untitled Head II (Prototype)

stained California English walnut wood

76.2 by 30.5 by 23.5 cm. 30 by 12 by 9¼ in.

Executed circa 1970.

Estate of the artist

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Bradley Little, Ed., Architectural Digest, vol. 27, no. 5, March - April 1971, p. 4, illustration in colour of another example (from the edition of 30)

Gemini G.E.L. and National Gallery of Art, Gemini G.E.L. Catalogue Raisonné, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. 2001, no. 31.32, n.p., illustration in colour of another example (from the edition of 30)

Andrea Theil, Ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 – ongoing, no. RLCR 1918, illustration in colour of another example (from the edition of 30) (online)

New York, Castelli Graphics, Roy Lichtenstein: New Editions, Lithographs, Sculptures, Reliefs, September - October 1970, n.p., illustrated (an example from the edition of 30 exhibited)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and travelling, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibiles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 1998 - August 2000, p. 108, illustrated in colour (Mexico City, Valencia, Lisbon); no. 29, p. 93, illustrated (Washington D.C.) (an example from the edition of 30 exhibited)

Mornington, Mornington Peninsula Gallery; Brisbane, Queensland University of Technology Museum; Alice Springs, Araluen Arts Centre and Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix, April 2012 - January 2014, p. 61, illustrated in colour (an example from the edition of 30 exhibited)

Venice, Fondazione Prada, The Small Utopia: Ars Multiplicata, July - November 2012

Los Angeles, Skirball Cultural Center, Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A., October 2016 - March 2017 (an example from the edition of 30 exhibited)