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

Roy Lichtenstein

Mirror #8 (Study)

Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Bid

300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Mirror #8 (Study)

signed, dated 1970 and inscribed Two oval mirrors (on the verso)

cut painted paper, cut printed paper, cut paper, tape and graphite on 2 joined boards

overall: 38 ⅞ by 50 ½ in.

98.7 by 128.3 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1859, illustrated in color (online)

Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Museum, The Graphic Art of Roy Lichtenstein, September - October 1975, no. 35, p. 16

Valencia, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts Galleries, Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Collages from the Artist's Collection, April - May 1977, no. 32, p. 75, illustrated

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Large Drawings, November 1985 - April 1986

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

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; Tel Aviv Museum; Dublin, Trinity College, Douglas Hyde Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March 1987 - November 1988, no. 305, p. 86, illustrated in color