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

Roy Lichtenstein

Teardrop Pendant (Castelli LC G-84)

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Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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4,200 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Teardrop Pendant

incised with the artist's signature and A/P (on the back)

cloisonné porcelain enamel, gold wire and silver back plate

3 ½ by 2 in.

8.9 by 5.1 cm.

Conceived circa 1965 and fabricated circa 1966-67, this work is number 1 of 2 artist's proofs from an edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proof.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Ruth Preston, "Jewel of an Art," New York Post, 3 December 1965, p. 52

Multiples Gallery Inc. ed., New York 1966, no. 1, illustrated 

"Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors." Craft Horizons 27, no. 3, May - June 1967, p. 36, illustrated (titled Tear Drop) 

Exh. Cat., Long Beach, California State University, Art Galleries, Roy Lichtenstein: Ceramic Sculpture, February - March 1977, no. 5, p.9, illustrated in color

Toni Lesser Wolf, "The Intimate Art," ARTnews, vol. 88, no. 9, November 1989, p. 126, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat. New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Multiples, Inc.,1965–1992, January - February 2021, p. 13, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1282, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Multiples, Inc, Cloisonné Jewelry, December 1965

Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; St. Cloud State College, Headley Hall; Austin, University of Texas, Art Museum; Roanoke Fine Arts Center; Bowling Green State University, BGSU Fine Arts Gallery; Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Chicago Arts Club, Moderner Schmuck von Malern und Bildhauern / Moderne juwelen door schilders en beeldhouwers / Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, May 1967 - June 1968, no. 61, illustrated (the present example exhibited)

New York, Jewish Museum, Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things, April - June 1969, no. 95 (titled Untitled and dated 1968-69)

Long Beach, California State University, University Art Museum; New Brunswick, Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Wichita Art Museum; Muskegon Museum of Art; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Coral Gables, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Toledo Museum of Art, The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, August 1997 - August 2000, no. 22,

New York Museum of Arts and Design; Athens, Benaki Museum; Institut Valencia d’Art Modern; Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art; Seoul, Hangaram Design Museum; Venice, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo; Riga, Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Espace Indigo; Luxembourg, Cercle Cité, Picasso to Koons: The Artist As Jeweler, September 2011 - January 2022, illustrated in color on the front cover and p. 173, illustrated in color (the present example exhibited)