Roy Lichtenstein

Nude with Blue Hair

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

Nude with Blue Hair

signed, dated '94 and inscribed AP 5/12 (lower right)

relief print in colors on Rives BFK mold-made paper

image: 51 ½ by 31 ¾ in. 130 by 80.2 cm.

sheet: 57 ⅞ by 37 ⅝ in. 146.7 by 95.3 cm.

Executed in 1994, this impression is one of 12 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 40 with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Mary Lee Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1993, New York, 1994, p. 258, no. 286, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4294, illustrated in color (online) (another example illustrated)

Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein Nudes: Six New Color Relief Prints, October 1994 (another example exhibited)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; and Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, October 1994 - November 1995, no. 90 (another example exhibited)

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, Nudes: 9 Color Relief Prints, November - December 1994 (another example exhibited)

Fukushima, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Roy Lichtenstein: Entablatures—Nudes, August - October 1995, no. 33, p. 24, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover) (another example exhibited and illustrated)

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Collects Lichtenstein, January - May 2000 (another example exhibited)

Australia, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Brisbane, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum; Alice Springs, Australia, Araluen Arts Centre; and Canberra, National Gallery of Australia (revised and expanded), Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix, April 2012 - January 2014, p. 12, illustrated in color (Canberra) (another example exhibited and illustrated)

Île de Porquerolles, France, Fondation Carmignac, La Source, April - November 2019 (another example exhibited)