Contemporary Day Auction

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

Roy Lichtenstein

Roommates (Study)

Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Roommates (Study)

signed and dated '93 (on the verso)

colored pencil and graphite on paper

image: 4 ⅞ by 3 ¾ in. (12.5 by 9.7 cm.)

sheet: 9 ⅝ by 8 in. (24.4 by 20.3 cm.)

Executed in 1993.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4230, illustrated in color (online)

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Huntington Museum of Art and Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Man Hit by the 21st Century, November 1997 - May 1999, illustrated in color

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna and Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Vida animada/Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 56, illustrated in color

New York, FLAG Art Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein: Nudes and Interiors, February - May 2014, p. 24, illustrated in color

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera prima, September 2014 - September 2015, no. 205, p. 186, illustrated in color