Roy Lichtenstein

Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup

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May 16, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

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

Bid

900,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup

incised with the artist's signature, date '95 and number AP 1/2 (lower left)

acrylic and pigmented wax on aluminum

71 ¾ by 84 in.

182.2 by 213.4 cm.

Executed in 1995, this work is artist proof 1 of 2 from an edition of 6 plus 2 artist proofs.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exh. Cat., Salzburg, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, "The Muse?" Transforming the Image of Woman in Contemporary Art, July - August 1995, no. 48, p. 97, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Montclair Art Museum, Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair, May - August 1999, no. 1, p. 49, illustrated in color

Terry Ann R. Neff, The Fisher Collection, San Francisco 2007, p. 54, illustrated in color

Marilyn S. Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich 2010, no. 155, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 145, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4342, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: New Sculpture, September - October 1995 (another example exhibited)

Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, October 1998, p. 220, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, June - September 1999, p. 24 and 187, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, PaceWildenstein, Group Exhibition, July 1999 (another example exhibited)

London & New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture, June - October 2005, p. 105, illustrated in color (present example)