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

Roy Lichtenstein

Mirror I

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Mirror I

incised with the artist's signature, numbered 2/3 and dated '76 (lower edge)

painted and patinated bronze

44 ½ by 25 by 11 ⅝ in.

113 by 63.5 by 29.5 cm.

Executed in 1976, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3 plus 1 posthumous cast.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Ernst A. Busche, “Interview with Roy Lichtenstein,” Das Kunstwerk, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1978, p. 24, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Mario Amaya, “Architectural Digest Visits: Roy Lichtenstein,” Architectural Digest, Vol. 35, No. 6, July-August 1978, pp. 85, 87, illustrated in color (installed in the artist’s Southampton studio) (detail) and p. 86 (text) (the present example) 

Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, 2005, p. 8, illustrated (in progress) and p. 20, illustrated in color (installed with the artist in his studio)

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago (and traveling), Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, 2012-13, p. 355, illustrated (installed in London, Mayor Gallery, 1977) (edition 1/3) (Chicago); p. 253, illustrated (installed in London, Mayor Gallery, 1977) (edition 1/3) (Paris)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, no. RLCR 2533, illustrated in color (online)

Exh. Cat., Vienna, The Albertina Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, 2024, p. 63, illustrated (in an earlier state)

London, Mayor Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, November - December 1977, no. 7, n.p., illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, November - December 1977, no. 7, n.p., illustrated in color (the present example) 

New York, Hamilton Gallery, Bronze, January - February 1981 (edition no. unknown)

New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures, 1976-1989, May - July 1989, no. 3, p. 25, illustrated in color (the present example) 

Guild Hall, East Hampton, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August - October 1992, n.p. (text) (the present example) 

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM); A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings July 1998 - August 2000, pp. 32, 120, illustrated in color (Mexico City); no. 128, pp. 50, 117, illustrated in color (Washington, D.C.) (the present example) 

New York, Acquavella Galleries, The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, April - May 2013, no. 49, pp. 156, 251, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein: Remembered, September - October 2023, p. 73, illustrated in color and p. 74, illustrated in color (detail) (the present example)