ROY'S LICHTENSTEINS: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY AND ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Ritual Mask
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Estimate
550,000 - 650,000 EUR
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ROY'S LICHTENSTEINS: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY AND ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Ritual Mask
incised with the artist's signature rf Lichtenstein, dated '92, and numbered 0/6
painted galvanized steel
129,9 x 60 x 28,9 cm; 51⅛ x 23⅝ x 11⅜ in.
Executed in 1992 this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, 1993-1996, no. 268, n.p., our example illustrated in colour
New York, Gagosian Gallery, The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture, 1996, another example illustrated
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, 1998, our example referenced
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, 1998-2000, no. 129, p. 174, another example illustrated in colour
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, 1999, no. 31, p. 76, another example illustrated in colour
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades, 2001–2002, another example referenced
London, Gagosian Gallery; and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, 2005, p. 93, another example illustrated in colour
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Modern & Contemporary Masters: Pablo Picasso & Roy Lichtenstein, 2006, another example referenced
Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, 2013, no. 183, p. 223, another example illustrated in colour
London, Lévy Gorvy, Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing, 2018, p. 93, another example illustrated in colour (detail)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein Remembered, 2023, pp. 125 & 128, our example illustrated in colour
Amei Wallach, Vrooming into Art History, 1993, illustrated in colour (with artist in studio)
Hal Foster, The Hardest Kind of Archetype: Reflections on Roy Lichtenstein, 2011, no. 12, p. 28, illustrated in colour
Hal Foster, "Roy Lichtenstein, or the Cliché Image." in The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Princeton, 2012, no. 2.24, p. 96, illustrated
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - en cours, RLCR 4152.0/6, illustrated in colour (online)