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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Explosion (Study)

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September 26, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Explosion (Study)

colored pencil, marker and graphite on paper

image: 7 ¼ by 5 ⅜ in. 18.4 by 13.7 cm.

sheet: 8 ⅞ by 6 in. 22.5 by 15.2 cm.

Executed circa 1965.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paul Bianchini, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, no. 65-17, p. 166, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1066, illustrated in color (online)

New York, School of Visual Arts and Ithaca, Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein, November 1991 - November 1972

Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz; Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Roy Lichtenstein: Dessins sans bande, January - September 1975, p. 39, illustrated in color (Paris) and no. 53, p. 23, illustrated in color (Berlin and Aachen)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1985 - March 1994 (on extended loan)

Tokyo, Odakyu Museum; Sakura, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art; Ohtsu, Shiga Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Kobe, Daimaru Museum; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: Cosmos of His Art, March 1988 - October 1998, no. 23a, p. 53, illustrated in color

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Vida animada/Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 39, illustrated in color (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro); p. 44, illustrated in color (Buenos Aires)