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Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

The Great Pyramid Banner (Study)

Live auction begins on:

January 31, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Bid

120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


The Great Pyramid Banner (Study)

signed R. Lichtenstein and dated '80 (on the reverse)

cut painted and printed paper, tape and graphite on paperboard

image: 73.6 by 17.8 cm. (29 by 7 in.)

board: 101.6 by 43.2 cm. (40 by 17 in.)

Executed circa 1977-78.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Pully-Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain and Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992 - January 1993, p. 63, illustrated in color (titled Collage for "Pyramids" and dated 1969)

Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings and Collages, 1960–1993, June - July 1993

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2685, illustrated in color (online)