Roy Lichtenstein

Portrait Triptych (Studies)

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Portrait Triptych (Studies)

each: signed and dated '74 (on the reverse)

left and center sheets: colored pencil and graphite on paper

right sheet: colored pencil, graphite and paper collage on paper

left image: 13 ½ by 10 ¾ in. 34.3 by 27.3 cm.

center image: 13 ¼ by 10 ¾ in. 33.7 by 27.3 cm.

right image: 13 ⅜ by 10 ⅝ in. 34 by 27 cm.

each sheet: 22 by 14 ⅞ in. 55.9 by 37.8 cm.

Executed in 1974.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

William Wilson, “Lichtenstein at CalArts,” Los Angeles Times, 25 April 1977, p. 1, illustrated (panels 1 and 2)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2299, illustrated in color (online)

Paris, Centre Beaubourg, Centre National d’Art Contemporain; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz; and Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Pop Art: Roy Lichtenstein, January - September 1975

New York, Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: Collages, October 1976

Valencia, CalArts Galleries, California Institute of the Arts, Roy Lichtenstein at CalArts: Drawings and Collages from the Artist’s Collection, April - May 1977, no. 51, p. 92, illustrated (titled Study of Portrait Triptych) (detail)

St. Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of Art; Fort Worth Art Museum; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Florence, Orsanmichele; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Chuo Kurashiki City, Ohara Museum of Art; and Seibu Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, May 1981 - July 1983

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

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; Tel Aviv Museum; Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College; Frankfurt, Kunsthalle; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March 1987 - November 1988, no. 136, pp. 106-07, illustrated in color (titled Portrait Triptych) (traveled to except Amsterdam and Dublin)

Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; and London, Tate Modern, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 144, p. 318, illustrated in color (traveled to all except Paris) (titled Portrait Triptych (Study))

New York, Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Re-Figure, November 2016 - January 2017, pp. 7, 9 (text) and p. 8, illustrated in color