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

Roy Lichtenstein

The Sower (Study)

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Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


The Sower (Study)

signed and dated '84 (on the verso)

cut painted paper, cut printed paper, cut paper, acrylic and graphite on paperboard

image: 38 ¼ by 52 ½ in. 97.2 by 133.3 cm.

paperboard: 40 ¾ by 55 ⅛ in. 103.5 by 140 cm.

Executed in 1984.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

John Gruen, "Artist's Dialogue: Roy Lichtenstein: Bold Strokes of Wit and Wisdom," Architectural Digest, vol. 42, no. 9, September 1985, p. 52, illustrated in color (detail)

Carter Ratcliff, "The Work of Roy Lichtenstein in the Age of Walter Benjamin's and Jean Baudrillard's Popularity," Art in America, Vol.77, no. 2, February 1989, illustrated in color on front cover (detail) and table of contents

Exh. Cat., Milan Triennale, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - May 2010, no. 63, p. 323, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3387, illustrated in color (online)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1986 - 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. 313, p. 163, illustrated in color (New York); no. 298, p. 163, illustrated in color (Frankfurt, Oxford and Washington, D.C.)

Cuenca, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español; Palma de Mallorca, Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Pinacothèque de Paris; Katonah Museum of Art; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Malibu, Pepperdine University, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Beginning to End, November 2005 - April 2011, no. 4, p. 29, illustrated in color (Cuenca and Palma de Mallorca); no. 18, p. 55, illustrated in color (Madrid and Paris); p. 6, illustrated in color (Katonah); p. 8, illustrated in color (Memphis and Malibu)