Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
A Stroke of Genius: Property from a Private Collection
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000,000 - 30,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
1923 - 1997
WHITE BRUSHSTROKE I
signed and dated '65 on the reverse
oil and Magna on canvas
48 by 56 in. 121.9 by 142.2 cm.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC#348)
Irving Blum, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1965)
Christie's New York, 4 May 1993, Lot 31 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1971, n.p., pl. 135, illustrated in color
John Coplans, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1972, p. 45, illustrated
Lawrence Alloway, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1983, p. 41, no. 38, illustrated
Janis Hendrickson, Lichtenstein, Cologne 1988, p. 44, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Milan, La Triennale di Milano, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, 2010, p. 212 (text), and p. 215, illustrated in color
Gianni Mercurio, Roy Lichtenstein: Kunst als Motiv, Cologne 2010, p. 215, illustrated in color
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes & Ceramics, November - December 1965
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, September - November 1969
London, Royal Academy of Arts; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; and Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Pop Art, September 1991 - September 1992, p. 127, no. 84, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Roy Lichtenstein, October 1993 - September 1995, p. 162, no. 132, illustrated in color, and pp. 156-157 (text) (Munich, Hamburg, and Brussels only)