Roy Lichtenstein

Explosion (Study)

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Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Explosion (Study)

marker, colored pencil and graphite on paper

image: 4 ¾ by 4 ¾ in. (12.1 by 12.1 cm.)

sheet: 9 by 6 in. (22.9 by 15.2 cm.)

Executed in 1965.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1069, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1985 - March 1994 (extended loan)

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Vida animada | Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 39, illustrated in color

Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 29, p. 72, illustrated in color

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera prima, September 2014 - January 2015, no. 48, p. 62, illustrated in color