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Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Pyramid and Temple (Studies)

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January 31, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Bid

22,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Pyramid and Temple (Studies)

signed R. Lichtenstein and dated 68 (on the verso)

colored pencil and graphite on paper

30.8 by 23.5 cm.

12 ⅛ by 9 ¼ in.

Executed in 1968.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Centre Beaubourg (Roy Lichtenstein: Dessins sans bande); Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Roy Lichtenstein: Zeichnungen) and Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen (Pop Art: Roy Lichtenstein), January - September 1975, p. 36, illustrated (Paris); no. 71, p. 48, illustrated (Aachen)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1985 - 1994 (extended loan)

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Tel Aviv Museum; Dublin, Trinity College, Douglas Hyde Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March 1987 - November 1988, no. 81, p. 84, illustrated (New York); no. 77, p. 84, illustrated (Oxford)

North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera prima, September 2014 - January 2015, no. 59, p. 71, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1581, illustrated in color (online)