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

Roy Lichtenstein

Imperfect Sculpture

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September 26, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Imperfect Sculpture

incised with the artist's signature, number AP 1/2 and date '95 (along the lower edge of the sculpture)

stained cast iron and painted stainless steel

30 ¾ by 34 ¾ by 5 in.

78.1 by 88.3 by 12.7 cm.

Conceived in 1994 and cast in 1995, this work is artist proof 1 from an edition 6 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Marilyn Satin Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich, 2010, no. 143, p. 139, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 205, p. 245, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4346, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: New Sculpture, September - October 1995 (another example exhibited)

New York, Pratt Manhattan Gallery; New York, Pratt Institute, Rubella and Norman Schafler Gallery, Sculptors and Their Environments, January - April 1998 (the present 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, pp. 53 and 201, illustrated in color (Mexico City, Valencia, A Coruña and Lisbon); no. 152, p. 189, illustrated in color (Washington D.C.) (another example exhibited)

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, July - October 1999, no. 52, pp. 38 and 60, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Perfect/Imperfect, September - December 2002, p. 101, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) 

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash; Bellevue Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural, September 2002 - September 2003 (another example exhibited)

Milan Triennale; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010, p. 169, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Mostly Men, September - October 2010, p. 28, illustrated in color (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. 110, n.p., illustrated in color (Chicago) and no. 34, p. 135, illustrated in color (Paris) (another example exhibited)

London, Gagosian Gallery, The Show Is Over, October - November 2013, p. 69, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, September - November 2015 (another example exhibited)

Milan, Museo delle Culture and Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Roy Lichtenstein. Multiple Visions, May 2019 - April 2021, p. 160, illustrated in color (Milan) and p. 143, illustrated in color (Mons)