
Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Modern Sculpture with Velvet Rope (Castelli LC 502)
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Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
1923-1997
Modern Sculpture with Velvet Rope (Castelli LC 502)
stamped with the artist's initials, number 3 - 3 and foundry's mark GH 9 (lower edge)
brass and velvet rope
i. 83 ¼ by 26 by 15 in. (211.5 by 66 by 38.1 cm.)
ii. 58 ½ by 26 by 15 in. (148.6 by 66 by 15 cm.)
Conceived in 1968 and executed in 1968-69, this work is number 3[1] from an edition of 3 planned, 4 fabricated.
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, December 1968 - February 1969, no. 72, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Irving Blum Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, February - March 1969 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection 2, April - November 1969, p. 26, illustrated (another example exhibited)
London, Hayward Gallery, Pop Art, July - September 1969, no. 38, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1969 - August 1970 (present example)
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Lichtenstein: Sculptures, March 1970, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition, June - September 1972 (another example exhibited)
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, January 1973 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Ace Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture 1967-68, Entablature Paintings 1974-75, May - June 1975 (another example exhibited)
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work, 1965-1970, November - December 1978, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August - October 1992, no.5, n.p., illustrated (present example)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts and Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 253, n.p., illustrated in color (present example)
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, July 1998 - August 2000, p. 98, illustrated in color (Mexico City); no. 19, p. 84, illustrated in color (Washington, D.C.), p. 98, illustrated in color (Valencia, A Coruña and Portugal) (present example)
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbia Museum of Art and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 1999 - July 2001 (another example exhibited)
Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and London, Tate Modern, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - May 2013, no. 93, n.p., illustrated in color (present example)
Giancarlo Politi, “L’immaginazione e il potere,” Flash Art (Rome), issue 9, November - December 1968, n.p., illustration of another example
Paul Katz, “Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Sculpture with Velvet Rope,” Art Now: New York, vol. 1, issue. 1, January 1969, n.p., illustration of another example
Max Kozloff, “Lichtenstein at the Guggenheim,” Artforum, vol. 8, issue 3, November 1969, p. 43, illustration of another example
William Wilson, “Art Walk: A Critical Guide to the Galleries, La Cienega,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1969, part 4, p. 17, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Mayagüez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop, April - May 1970, no. 37. n.p., illustration of another example
Ángel Crespo, “Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop,” Revista de arte/The Art Review, issue 5, June 1970, no. 37, p. 33, illustration of another example
Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1971, no. 159, n.p., color illustration of another example
John Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1972, no. 60, n.p., illustration of another example
Lawrence Alloway, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1983, no. 57, p. 59, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002, no. 11, n.p., color illustration of another example
Graham Bader, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: October Files, Cambridge 2009, p. 14, illustration of another example
Robert Slifkin, “Philip Guston’s Return to Figuration and the ‘1930s Renaissance’ of the 1960s,” Art Bulletin, vol. 92, issue 2, June 2011, no. 16, p. 233, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 88, color illustration of another example
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1629, color illustration of another example (online)
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