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Roy Lichtenstein

Woman Contemplating Yellow Cup

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Woman Contemplating Yellow Cup

incised with the artist's signature, date '95 and number 3/6 (lower left)

paint and pigmented wax on aluminum

71¾ by 84 by 1½ in.

182.2 by 213.4 by 3.8 cm.

Executed in 1995, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6. 

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Salzburg, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, "The Muse?" Transforming the Image of Woman in Contemporary Art, 1995, p. 97, no. 48, illustrated 

Marilyn S. Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich 2010, illustrated in color (on the cover), pp. 13, 142-147 (illustrated in color)

New York, Gagosian, Roy Lichtenstein: New Sculpture, 1995 (another example exhibited)

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, 1999, p. 24 and 187, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Pace Wildenstein, 1999 (another example exhibited)

New York, Gagosian, Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture, September - October 2005, p. 105, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)