Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Eclipse of the Sun and Eclipse of the Sun II (Studies)
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Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Bid
70,000 USD
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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Eclipse of the Sun and Eclipse of the Sun II (Studies)
signed and dated '75 (on the verso)
colored pencil and graphite on paper
upper image: 3 ½ by 5 ¾ in. 8.9 by 14.6 cm.
lower image: 4 ½ by 3 ¾ in. 11.4 by 9.5 cm.
sheet: 13 by 10 ¼ in. 33 by 26 cm.
Executed in 1975.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2340, illustrated in color (online)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1985 - March 1994 (on extended loan)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; Tel Aviv Museum; Dublin, Trinity College, Douglas Hyde Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March 1987 - November 1988, no. 159, p. 117, illustrated in color (New York); no. 150, p. 117, illustrated in color (Frankfurt, Oxford, and Washington, D.C.)
Milan Triennale; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010, no. 69, p. 324, illustrated in color
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