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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

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ID 842734
Lot 27 | ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Mirror #5

signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '70' (on the reverse)

oil and Magna on canvas

diameter: 24 in. (61 cm.)

Painted in 1970.





Provenance

Mitchell Lichtenstein, New York, 1970, gift of the artist

Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1996

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000



Literature

G. Bader, Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s, Cambridge, 2010, p. 170-171 (illustrated).

Roy Lichtenstein, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2013, pp. 105-106 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Mirrors, March-April 1971.

Stony Brook, Fine Arts Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Mirrors and Entablatures, October-December 1979.

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: The Mirror Paintings, October-November 1989, n.p. (illustrated).

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, I Love Yellow, June-September 1996, p. 42, no. 46 (illustrated).

Zürich, Art Focus, Roy Lichtenstein, March-May 1997, p. 24 (illustrated).

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Roy Lichtenstein, May-September 1998.

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, From Color to Light, April-July 2000, p. 94, 165, cat. no. 51 (illustrated).



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