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

Roy Lichtenstein

Unfurled (After Morris Louis)

Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Bid

1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Unfurled (After Morris Louis)

signed and dated '73 (on the reverse)

acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas

30 by 36 ⅛ in.

76.4 by 91.8 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Graham Bader, Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s, Cambridge 2010, no. 3.18, p. 113, illustrated

Graham Bader, "Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective," Artforum, vol. 50, no. 9, p. 149

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2240, illustrated in color (online)

Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 72, n.p., illustrated in color