Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Roy Lichtenstein

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)