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

Roy Lichtenstein

Figure with Trylon and Perisphere, and Pyramid (Studies)

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30,000 - 40,000 USD

Bid

25,000 USD

Lot Details

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Figure with Trylon and Perisphere, and Pyramid (Studies)

signed and dated '69 (on the verso)

colored pencil and graphite on paper

left image: 3 ½ by 2 ⅛ in. 9 by 5.4 cm

right image: 3 ⅜ by 4 ⅝ in. 8.6 by 11.7 cm

sheet: 8 ⅞ by 12 ⅝ in. 22.5 by 32.1 cm

Executed in 1969.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1651, illustrated in color (online)

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. 37, illustrated (titled Trylon and Perisphere) (Paris) and no. 76, p. 20, illustrated (Berlin and Aachen)

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. 82, p. 187 (New York); no. 78, p. 187 (Frankfurt, Oxford, and Washington, D.C.)

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash; Bellevue Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural, September 2002 - September 2003, n.p., illustrated as a xerox on the artist's studio card