ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 1
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 5
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Lot 549
15.05.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 549 | ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Brushstrokes in Flight
incised with the artist's signature, number and date '5/6 rf Lichtenstein '83' (on the base)
painted and patinated bronze
55 ¼ x 21 x 10 in. (140.3 x 53.3 x 25.4 cm)
Executed in 1983. This work is number five from an edition of six plus one posthumous cast.




Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984



Literature

V. Illés, "Schilderen of het gedrukt staat," Elsevier, July 1987 (another example illustrated on the cover).
M. Brenson, "'Sculpture by Painters at the Pace," The New York Times, 30 June 1989, p. C21.
A. Hindry, ed., "Roy Lichtenstein," Artstudio, Spring 1991, p. 29 (another example illustrated).
S.E. Canning, "Lichtenstein's Brushstroke Legacy at Mitchell-Innes and Nash While Gagosian Installs 'Brushstroke' at the Seagram Building Plaza,' Art Newspaper, November 2001, p. 73 (another example illustrated).
A. Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 3167 (another example illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings; Greene Street Mural, December 1983-January 1984 (another example exhibited).
New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures, 1976-1989, May-July 1989, p. 67, no. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Pace Gallery, Sculpture by Painters, June-September 1989 (another example exhibited).
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August-October 1992, n.p. (another example exhibited).
Pully-Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain and Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992-April 1983, p. 125 (another example exhibited).
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 1998-August 2000, pp. 36 and 155 (Spanish edition), p. 141, no. 90 (English edition) (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Zürich, de Pury and Luxembourg, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades, November 2001-June 2002, n.p., no. 17 (2001 edition), n.p., no. 12 (2002 edition) (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001-February 2002, p. 106 (another example exhibited).
London, Gagosian Gallery and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June-September 2005, pp. 60-61 and 118 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Portland Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, October 2005-February 2006 (another example exhibited).
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, October 2009-May 2010, n.p. (another example exhibited and installation view illustrated).
Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May-November 2013, n.p., no. 132 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural, September-October 2015, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated and installation view illustrated).
Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Roy Lichtenstein: The Loaded Brush, July-September 2019, pp. 104-105 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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