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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist's Studio "Look Mickey" (Study)

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100,000 - 150,000 USD

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100,000 USD

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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Artist's Studio "Look Mickey" (Study)

signed and dated '73 (on the verso)

graphite and colored pencil on paper

7 ⅛ by 9 ⅜ in.

18.1 by 23.8 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Valencia, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts Galleries, Roy Lichtenstein at CalArts: Drawings and Collages from the Artist's Collection, April - May 1977, no. 46, p. 87, illustrated (titled Artist's Studio [Look Mickey])

Saint Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Florence, Orsanmichele; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Kurashiki, Ohara Museum of Art; and Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, May 1981 - July 1983

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

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; 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. 127, p. 39, illustrated (titled Study for Artist's Studio, Look Mickey)

Rome, Chiostro del Bramante; Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea and Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Riflessi/Reflections, December 1999 - January 2001, no. 36, p. 93, illustrated in color (titled Artist's Studio ['Look Mickey'], preliminary study for painting)

Exh. Cat., Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, 2012, fig. 2, p. 70, illustrated in color (detail)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2121, illustrated in color (online)