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

Roy Lichtenstein

Small Wall Explosion

Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Small Wall Explosion

signed, dated '65 and numbered 6/6 (on the reverse)

porcelain enamel on steel and perforated steel

21 ⅞ 20 ½ by 7 ⅜ in.

55.6 by 52.1 by 18.7 cm.

Executed in 1965, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Erika Billeter, "Pop im Examen: Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Rauschenberg, Segal," Speculum artis, issue 17, no. 9, October 1965, p. 32, illustrated

Max Kozloff, "Lichtenstein at the Guggenheim," Artforum, issue 8, no. 3, November 1969, p. 41, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Mayagüez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop, April - May 1970, no. 10, n.p., illustrated

Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1971, no. 117, n.p., illustrated

Marilyn S. Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich 2010, no. 157, p. 148, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1155, illustrated in color (online)

Milan, Gian Enzo Sperone, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Dine, Rosenquist, April - May 1966, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1969 - August 1970, no. 91, p. 85, illustrated (present example)

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Roy Lichtenstein, June - September 1973, no. 7 (another example exhibited)

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August - October 1992, no. 2, illustrated in color (present example)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., 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, no. 16, p. 81, illustrated in color (present example)

North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002 (present example)

Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 20, p. 64, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, Metonymies: A Dialogue with Twentieth-Century Works from the Sonnabend Collection, February - April 2019 (another example exhibited)