Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Purple Range
Auction Closed
May 14, 12:59 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Purple Range
signed and dated '66 (on the reverse)
acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas
36 by 48 in.
91.4 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1966.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC #390)
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gelfman, New York
Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis (acquired by May 1970)
Sotheby's London, 3 April 1974, lot 62 (consigned by the above)
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired from the above)
Hurbertus Langen, Frankfurt (acquired from the above circa 1974)
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in 2004)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Barbara and Richard Lane, New York (acquired from the above in 2006)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Andrea Theil, “Purple Range, 1966 (RLCR 1271),” Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2024 (ongoing), illustrated in color (online)
Minneapolis, Dayton's Gallery 12, New Acquisitions: Fourteen Important Works by Andre, Flavin, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Noland, Stella, Warhol, May - June 1970, n.p., illustrated in color
Stuttgart, Fischer Fine Art Ltd., Paintings by Colville, Lichtenstein and Lindner, October 1974, no. 4, p. 6 (text) and p. 13, illustrated
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kunst nach 45 aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, October - November 1983, p. 219, illustrated (titled Landschaft)
Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Zurück zur Natur, aber wie? Kunst der letzten 20 Jahre, April - July 1988, pp. 122-23, illustrated in color
Art Institute of Chicago, July 2005 – August 2005 (extended loan)
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