Roy Lichtenstein

Still Life Tapestry (Study)

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Still Life Tapestry (Study)

signed and dated 1973 (lower left)

cut painted paper, cut printed paper, marker on cut paper, cut paper, marker and graphite on board

image: 32 ⅝ by 24 ½ in. 82.9 by 62.2 cm.

board: 34 ⅜ by 26 ¼ in. 87.3 by 66.7 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2185, illustrated in color (online)

Seattle, Foster/White Gallery, Modern Master Tapestries, February 1976 (likely exhibited)

Albuquerque Museum, Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium, September 1999 - January 2000, no. 33, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color (titled Still Life, Collage study for tapestry)

New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Collage: Abstract Expressionist and Pop, October - December 2002

Cuenca, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español; Palma de Mallorca, Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Pinacothèque de Paris; Katonah Museum of Art; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens; and Malibu, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Lichtenstein in Process, November 2005 - April 2011, no. 33, p. 51, illustrated in color (titled Collage for Still Life) (Cuenca; Palma, 2005); no. 9, pp. 47, 147, illustrated in color (titled Collage for Still Life) (Madrid, 2007)