ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 1
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 2
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 3
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 4
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 5
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 6
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) - photo 7

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Lot 533
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Lot 533 | ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Double Glass
incised with the artist's signature, number and date '3/3 rf Lichtenstein '79' (lower edge)
painted bronze
56 x 42 x 17 in. (142.2 x 106.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979. This work is number three from an edition of three.




Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980



Literature

P. Jodidio, "Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Process," Connaissance des arts, no. 14, March 1981 (another example illustrated on the cover in the artist's studio).
H. Solomon and A. Anderson, Living with Art, New York, 1988, p. 100 (illustrated in situ).
Contemporary Great Masters: Roy Lichtenstein, Tokyo, 1992, n.p., no. 38 (another example illustrated).
R. Smith, "Roy Lichtenstein," Atelier, Tokyo, no. 803, 1994, p. 16 (another example illustrated installed).
Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, exh. cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, 2013, p. 112, no. 72 (another example illustrated).
A. Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 28673/3 (another example illustrated).



Exhibited

Saint Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Fort Worth Art Museum; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Florence, Orsanmichele; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Chuo Kurashiki City, Ohara Museum of Art and Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980, May 1981-July 1983 (another example exhibited).
Dallas, NorthPark Center, Sculpture: A Celebration of Contemporary Art, August-December 1985, n.p., no. 7 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Dallas Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Florence, Forte Belvedere and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, April 1987-March 1989, p. 103, no. 44 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures, 1976-1989, May-July 1989, p. 55, no. 18 (another example illustrated and exhibited; incorrectly numbered ed. 3/3).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993-January 1996, n.p., no. 262 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Dallas Museum of Art, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, May-August 1995 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Masterworks of Modern Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, October 1996-June 1997, p. 286 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; Spain, 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, p. 128 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
London, Gagosian Gallery and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June-October 2005, p. 53 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein Remembered, September-October 2023, pp, 90 and 93 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, March-July 2024, p. 161 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
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