A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Modern Painting Triptych II
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3,500,000 - 4,500,000 USD
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A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
(1923 - 1997)
Modern Painting Triptych II
signed and dated ‘67 (on the reverse)
acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas, in three parts
each: 36 by 36 in. 91.4 by 91.4 cm.
overall: 36 by 108 in. 91.4 by 274.3 cm.
Executed in 1967.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, October - November 1967 (vertical orientation)
Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, December 1967 - January 1968, n.p., illustrated (vertical orientation)
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 1968 - May 1970 (on extended loan)
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work, 1965-1970, November - December 1978, n.p., illustrated (vertical orientation)
Pully Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain and Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992 - January 1993, p. 55, illustrated in color (Pully Lausanne); no. 13, p. 35, illustrated in color (Liverpool)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; 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: Sculpture and Drawing, October 1998 - August 2000, pp. 86-87, illustrated in color (traveled to Mexico City and Monterrey only)
“Painting: Kidding Everybody,” Time, Vol. 89, No. 25, 23 June 1967, p. 72, illustrated (detail) (with the artist in his studio)
Bruno Alfieri, “Come Andare Avanti,” Metro, No. 14, 1968, p. 83, illustrated (installed in New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, 1967) (vertical orientation)
Robert Heide and John Gilman, Popular Art Deco: Depression Era Style and Design, New York 1991, p. 25, illustrated (flipped)
Exh. Cat., New York, Richard Gray Gallery (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Paintings, 2010, no. 12, p. 51, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Roy Lichtenstein: Kunst Als Motiv, 2010, pp. 89 and 178, illustrated (with the artist in his Bowery studio, 1967)
Exh. Cat., Triennale di Milano (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, 2010, p. 178, illustrated (with the artist in his Bowery studio, 1967)
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1369, illustrated in color (online)
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