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Roy Lichtenstein
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description
- Roy Lichtenstein
- 'A Bright Night' (Study)
- signed and dated '77 on the reverse
- colored pencil, graphite and paper collage on paper
- image: 3 1/2 by 4 1/4 in. 8.9 by 10.8 cm.
- sheet: 9 1/8 by 6 3/8 in. 23.2 by 16.2 cm.
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# D-345)
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Roy Lichtenstein: Conversations with Surrealism, September - November 2005, p. 27, illustrated in color
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, September 2014 - January 2015, cat. no. 133, p. 128, illustrated in color
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, September 2014 - January 2015, cat. no. 133, p. 128, illustrated in color
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact the Contemporary Department at (212) 606-7254 for a professional condition report prepared by Alan Firkser of Paper Conservation Studio, Inc. Framed under glass.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Lichtenstein's mastery of conceptual drawing—with its capacity for creating formal analogies among disparate, even antithetical, subjects, styles, and motifs—leads him now to an investigation of the style par excellence of analogy: Surrealism. Surrealism's penchant for ridding its objects of their conventional qualities through poetic and 'irrational' juxtaposition and metamorphic drawing of contours—and its rearrangement of those objects into a landscape fraught with associative meanings—provided Lichtenstein with a new associative model."
Bernice Rose in Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, 1987, p. 43