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

Roy Lichtenstein

Stretcher Frame with Cross Bars III

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Stretcher Frame with Cross Bars III

signed and dated '68 (on the reverse)

acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas

48 by 56 ¼ in.

121.9 by 142.9 cm.

Executed in 1968.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

David Sylvester, “The Ironic Lichtenstein Who Takes Soulful Subjects and Paints Them Cool,” Vogue, Vol. 154, No. 5, 15 September 1969, p. 143, illustrated in color (with the artist in the artist’s studio)

Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1971, no. 165, p. 211, illustrated in color and p. 247 (text)

Pierre Sterckx, “Lichtenstein: Le Mondrian du Pop,” Clés pour les arts, Vol. 18, February 1972, p. 13, illustrated

Jean-Pierre Keller, Pop art et évidence du quotidien, Lausanne 1979, p. 103, illustrated and p. 104 (text)

Anders Troelsen, “This is (Not) a Picture: Framework for an Analysis of a Roy Lichtenstein Painting,” Journal of Art History, Vol. 57, No. 2, Stockholm 1988, no. 1, pp. 79-86, 88 (text) and p. 80, illustrated 

Jürgen Zänker, "Walter Benjamin's Essay on Artworks in the Light of Pop Art: Illustrated by the Example of Roy Lichtenstein" Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch: Westdeutsches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 42, Cologne 1981, no. 9 p. 311 (text) and p. 312, illustrated

Tony Hendra, Brad '61: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, New York 1993, p. 67, illustrated in color

Louisana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana Revy, Special Issue: Roy Lichtenstein, Vol. 44, No. 1, August 2003, no. 29, p. 35, illustrated in color and p. 78 (text)

Francis Morel, ed., Connaissance des arts, Special Issue: Roy Lichtenstein, No. 589, July - August 2013, p. 10, illustrated in color

Claude Pommereau, ed., Roy Lichtenstein au Centre Pompidou, Paris 2013, p. 44, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1607, illustrated in color (online)

Vancouver Art Gallery; Regina, Canada, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery; and Montreal, Musée d’Art Contemporain, New York/13, January - July 1969, p. 14, illustrated

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. 54, p. 69, illustrated and p. 97 (text) (traveled to all except Chicago)

Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings, August - September 1982

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Homage to Leo Castelli, October 1983, p. 23, illustrated in color

Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Les Anées 60: 1960-1969, La Décade triomphante, June - September 1986

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. 79, p. 88, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Deception and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting in Europe and America, October 2002 - March 2003, no. 107, pp. 235, 348 (text) and p. 349, illustrated in color

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. 29, p. 69, illustrated in color and p. 141 (text)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2005 - May 2013 (on extended loan)

Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern; and Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 41, p. 142, illustrated in color and p. 259 (text) (Paris) (traveled to Paris only)

Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera prima, September 2014 - January 2015, no. 174, p. 161, illustrated in color