Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Galatea
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800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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800,000 USD
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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Galatea
inscribed with the artist's signature, number 1/6 and date '90 (on the base)
painted and patinated bronze
90 by 31 by 19 in.
228.6 by 78.7 by 48.3 cm.
Conceived in 1989 and cast in 1990, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
Heather Smith MacIssac, “Primary Space: Roy Lichtenstein Paints in Broad Strokes in His Renovated Studio,” House and Garden 163, no. 7, July 1991, p. 72, illustrated in color (in the artist’s studio)
Celia McGee, “Pop on Top This Summer at the Met,” Daily News, 2 May 2003, p. 59, illustrated in color (in installation at New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof, 2003)
Graham Bader, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, Cambridge, 2009, p. 159, illustrated and pp. 158 and 160
Hal Foster, “The Hardest Kind of Archetype”: Reflections on Roy Lichtenstein, Edinburgh, 2011, no. 13, p. 26, illustrated in color and p. 28
Hal Foster, The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Princeton and Oxford, 2012 no. 2.25, p. 97, illustrated in color and pp. 96 and 98
Francis Morel, ed., "Roy Lichtenstein au-delà du Pop Art," Connaissance des arts, no. 589, July - August 2013, p. 47, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 171, p. 211, illustrated in color
Julia Wolfe, Roy Lichtenstein: Outdoor Painted Sculpture, Los Angeles, 2023, no. 4.1, p. 70, illustrated in color, no. 4.2, p. 70, illustrated in color (in process) and no. 4.3, p. 71, illustrated in color (detail)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein, March - July 2024, no. 6, p. 73, illustrated in color
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3866, illustrated in color (online)
Pully-Lausanne, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain; Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992 - April 1993, p. 103, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 20th Century Masters, May - June 1994 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Mondrian +: 20th Century Masters at Janis, September - November 1994 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Brancusi to Segal at Janis, January - February 1995 (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporanéo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 1998 - August 2000, p. 182, illustrated in color (Mexico City); no. 116, pp. 17 and 165, illustrated in color (Washington D.C.); p. 182, illustrated in color (Valencia, A Coruña and Lisbon) (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, La sculpture contemporaine au Jardin des Tuileries, October 2000 - October 2006 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof, May - November 2003, no. 1, illustrated in color (on the cover) (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, LongHouse Reserve, Art in the Gardens, May - September 2004 (the present example exhibited)
East Hampton, LongHouse Reserve, Art in the Gardens, April 2005 - October 2007 (the present example exhibited)
London and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June - October 2005, p. 89, illustrated in color and pp. 90-91, illustrated in color (detail) (another example exhibited)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein: American Pop, March - August 2006 (another example exhibited)
Coral Gables, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Roy Lichtenstein at Fairchild, December 2007 - May 2008 (another example exhibited)
The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 114, n.p., illustrated in color (Chicago) and no. 129, p. 241, illustrated in color (Paris) (the present example exhibited)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein Remembered, September - October 2023, p. 121, illustrated in color and p. 122, illustrated in color (detail) (the present example exhibited)