Roy Lichtenstein

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Ontario, Gallery Stratford; Toronto, College Park; Musée du Quebec; Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Art Gallery of Windsor; Edmonton Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Calgary, Glenbow Museum; Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporarin, American Accents, June 1983 - January 1985, cat. no. 1983a, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Roy Lichtenstein: Oeuvres Récentes, January - February 1983 (another example exhibited)
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Sculpture: John Chamberlain, Sandro Chia, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, June - September 1983 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sixty-Five Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculpture 1976-1989, May - July 1989, cat. no. 23, p. 65, illustrated in color (ed. 1/6 exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo Del Palacio De Bellas Artes; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Spain, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; La Coruña, Spain, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; Lisbon, Portugal, Centro Cultural de Belem, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes Reconocibles: Escultura, Pintura y Grafica, July 1998 - August 2000,  cat. no. 89, pp. 18 and 140, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, Works on Paper: A Retrospective, November 2006 - January 2007

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. On one side of the blue brushstroke towards the bottom edge, there are approximately 6 pin-point spots of gold pigment accretion, presumably from the artist's studio. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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"The collision of high and low modes is the very strategy of his art, indeed of Pop in general, and here he extends it to sculpture as well: traditional bust meets abstract mannequin, Abstract Expressionist brushstroke meets cartoon sign of the same.  Crucially, however, the reference to traditional genres not only frames this collision, but in doing so, controls it as well.  And if there is a radical edge in Lichtenstein, it lies here: less in his thematic appropriation of comics and the like, and more in his formal reconciliation of lowly contents and high forms."
Exh. Cat., Hal Fost, Roy Lichtenstein, Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York and London, June - October 2005