Roy Lichtenstein

Nudes in Mirror (Study)

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Nudes in Mirror (Study)

signed and dated '94 (on the reverse)

colored pencil and graphite on paper

image: 12 ¼ by 10 ¼ in. 31.1 by 26 cm.

sheet: 15 ¼ by 11 ⅜ in. 38.7 by 28.9 cm.

Executed in 1994.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4307, illustrated in color (online)

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; West Virginia, Huntington Museum of Art; and Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Man Hit by the 21st Century, November 1997 - May 1999, n.p. (text) (titled Study for Nudes in Mirror)

Humblebæk, Louisiana Museum of Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein: All about Art, August 2003 - February 2005, no. 82, p. 55, illustrated in color and p. 142 (text) (titled Drawing for "Nudes in Mirror") (traveled to all except San Francisco)

São Paulo, Institutio Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museo Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museo de Arte Moderna; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Vida animada/Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 60, illustrated in color (São Paulo, 2005)