Contemporary Day Auction

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

Roy Lichtenstein

Untitled

Session begins in

May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Untitled

signed with the artist's initials (lower left); dated 1960 (on the reverse)

oil and coffee on canvas

48 by 70 ¼ in.

121.9 by 178.4 cm.

Executed in 1960.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Ernst A. Busche, Roy Lichtenstein: Das Frühwerk, 1942–1960, Berlin 1988, no. 145, p. 213, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein, July - November 2013, p. 33, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 613, illustrated in color (online)

Waterville, Colby College Museum of Art; Water Mill, Parrish Art Museum; Columbus Museum of Art and Durham, Duke University, Nasher Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, February 2021 - January 2023