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

Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections: Art

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Reflections: Art

signed and dated '88 (on the reverse)

acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas

44 ½ by 76 ¼ in.

113 by 193.7 cm.

Executed in 1988.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Carter Ratcliff, “Roy Lichtenstein: Donald Duck et Picasso,” Art Press, No. 140, October 1989, p. 15, illustrated 

Toni del Renzio, “Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections of US Culture,” Art Monthly, No. 165, April 1993, p. 7, illustrated and p. 8 (text)

Tony Hendra, Brad ‘61: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, New York 1993, p. 59, illustrated in color

Louisana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Louisiana Revy, Special Issue: Roy Lichtenstein, Vol. 44, No. 1, August 2003, no. 48, p. 51, illustrated in color and p. 79 (text)

“Pop life,” The Guardian, 21 October 2003 (online) (text)

Phyllis Stephen, "Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - Roy Lichtenstein," The Edinburgh Reporter, 13 March 2015 (online) (text)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3743, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections, October - November 1989

Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum; Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art; and Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990, July - December 1991, no. 42, p. 103 (text) and p. 105, illustrated in color (titled Reflections: Art!)

Pully-Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain and Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992 - April 1993, p. 95, illustrated in color (Pully-Lausanne); no. 42, p. 51, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the back cover) (Liverpool)

Rome, Chiostro del Bramante; Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Riflessi/Reflections, December 1999 - January 2001, no. 21, p. 77, illustrated in color (Rome)

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. 48, pp. 81, 144, illustrated in color 

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein Reflected, September - October 2010, no. 7, pp. 2-3, 33, illustrated in color

Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein, March 2015 - January 2016

Tate Liverpool, Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein in Focus, September 2017 - June 2018