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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Lot 64
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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$ 7 000 000
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ID 1423004
Lot 64 | ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 000 – 9 000 000
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The Kiss
signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '62' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
image: 18 ½ x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.)
sheet: 21 x 16 ¼ in. (53.3 x 41.2 cm.)
Executed in 1962.




Provenance

David Whitney, New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1969
C&M Arts, New York
Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, New York, 1996
Private collection, New York, 2008
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2012



Literature

J. Hutchinson, “Lichtenstein’s object art,” Sunday Press, 24 January 1988, n.p. (illustrated sideways).
C. Ratcliff, “The Work of Roy Lichtenstein in the Age of Walter Benjamin’s and Jean Baudrillard’s Popularity,” Art in America, vol. 77, no. 2, February 1989, p. 114 (illustrated).
A. Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 729 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Louis Alexander Gallery, Recent American Drawings, September-October 1962.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Members Dining Room, Penthouse Exhibition: Selections from the ALS, November-December 1962.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March-June 1987, pp. 15, 21-22, 26, 45 and 66, no. 11 (illustrated).
New York, Morgan Library and Museum and Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968, September 2010-May 2011, fig. 26, no. 22 (New York, pp. 60 and 116-117, illustrated; Vienna, pp. 64 and 120-121).
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein, July-November 2013.
New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties, January-March 2016, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).
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