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Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Atomic Landscape

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Atomic Landscape

signed and dated '66 (on the reverse)

acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas

14 by 16 ⅛ in.

35.6 by 41 cm.

Executed in 1966.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

John Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1972, p. 44, illustrated (titled Atomic Explosion)

Vincent Katz, “Comic-Strip Hero,” World of Interiors, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2004, p. 163, illustrated in color (installed in the artist’s Washington Street studio), illustrated in color (on the cover) and illustrated in color (on the contents page)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1210, illustrated in color (online)

Appleton, Wisconsin, Lawrence University; Ithaca, New York, White Museum of Art; Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Pennsylvania, Haas Gallery of Art, Bloomsburg State College; Ohio, College of Wooster; Nebraska, Municipal University of Omaha; Greencastle, Indiana, DePauw University; Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries of American Painting; and Mankato, Minnesota, Lincoln Art Gallery, Social Comment in America, March 1968 - June 1969, no. 24

Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes; Salamanca, Spain, Domus Artium; A Coruña, Spain, Kiosco Alfonso; QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, An American Odyssey, 1945-1980, April 2004 - January 2005, p. 164, illustrated in color 

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Pop!, June - September 2005

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Fallout: Cold War Culture, March - April 2006

Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Pop & Op, February - May 2008, p. 12, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)

New York, Morgan Library and Museum and Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968, January - May 2011, p. 225, illustrated in color (traveled to Vienna only)

Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, March - July 2024, p. 135, illustrated in color and p. 257 (text)