Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Eclipse of the Sun II
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September 26, 01:00 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Bid
2,300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Eclipse of the Sun II
signed and dated '75 (on the reverse)
acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas
70 by 54 in.
177.8 by 137.2 cm.
Executed in 1975.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exh. Cat., Milan Triennale, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - May 2010, p. 149, illustrated in color
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2342, illustrated in color (online)
St Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Florence, Orsanmichele; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Chuo Kurashiki City, Ohara Museum of Art; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980, May 1981 - July 1983, p. 99, illustrated in color (St Louis); no. 88, p. 99, illustrated in color (Cologne); p. 96, illustrated in color (Florence, Paris, Madrid, Chuo Kurashiki City); p. 95, illustrated in color (Tokyo)
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; Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 185, p. 240, illustrated in color