
A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Coup de Chapeau II
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1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
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A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
(1923 - 1997)
Coup de Chapeau II
incised with the artist’s signature, numbered 0/6 and dated ‘96 (lower edge)
painted bronze
89 by 32 by 13 ⅛ in.
226.1 by 81.3 by 33.3 cm.
Executed in 1996, this work is the artist's cast from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist’s cast.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
Arsenale, Venice Biennale, XVLII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte: Futuro, Presente, Passato, June - November 1997, p. 704 (text) (edition 3/6; at the time 6/6)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM); A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, July 1998 - August 2000, pp. 37, 51-52 (text) and pp. 38, 206, illustrated in color (Mexico City); no. 162, pp. 21-22 (text) and pp. 54, 194, illustrated in color (Washington, D.C.) (edition 3/6; at the time 6/6)
Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, La sculpture contemporaine au Jardin des Tuileries, October 2000 - October 2006, p. 30, illustrated (in installation) and p. 31, illustrated in color (in installation) (edition 3/6; at the time 6/6)
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002, no. 36, n.p., illustrated in color (the present example)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof, May - November 2003, n.p., no. 5 (the present example)
Coral Gables, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Roy Lichtenstein at Fairchild, December 2007 - May 2008 (edition 3/6)
Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, 2013, no. 221, p. 261, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)
Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, March - July 2024, p. 78 (text) and p. 197, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)
Eugene, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Shared Visions: Roy Lichtenstein, August - November 2024 (edition no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Recent Drawings and Sculpture, 1997 no. 17, p. 39, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)
"Richard Gray Gallery: Modern and Contemporary Masters," Art in America, 1999, p. 28, illustrated in color (in installation) (edition no. unknown)
Alfredo Triff, "Master Copycat," Miami New Times, 24 January 2002 (text) (online)
Fronia W. Simpson, art-SITES PARIS: Art, Architecture and Design, San Francisco 2002, no. 8, p. 38, illustrated (installed in Paris, Tuileries Garden, circa 2000)
Lawrence Van Gelder, "Arts Briefing: On Its Roof: Lichtenstein," The New York Times, 30 April 2003, p. E3 (text)
Celia McGee, “Pop on Top This Summer at the Met,” Daily News, 2 May 2003, p. 59 (text)
Terry Ann R. Neff, The Fisher Collection: l-z, vol. 2, San Francisco 2007, p. 55, illustrated in color (edition 4/6)
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4638, illustrated in color (online)
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