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A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Flower with Bamboo

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

(1923 - 1997)


Flower with Bamboo

signed and dated ‘96 (on the reverse)

acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas

77 by 66 ⅛ in.

195.6 by 168 cm.

Executed in 1996.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Singapore Art Museum; Hong Kong Museum of Art; and Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style, March 1997 - February 1999, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in color (Hong Kong)

Triennale di Milano and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010 (traveled to Cologne only)

Hong Kong, Gagosian and New York, Gagosian, Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style, November 2011 - April 2012, fig. 55, pp. 43, 106-07, 132, illustrated in color 

Janet Ho, “American Pop Icon Was Dotty about Chinese Art,” The Straits Times, 18 February 1998, p. 3, illustrated in color

Karen Bandlow, Roy Lichtenstein und Ostasien, Petersberg 2007, no. 92, p. 75, illustrated in color (titled Flowers with Bamboo)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4507, illustrated in color (online)