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Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Nude with Bust (Study)

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Roy's Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Nude with Bust (Study)

tape, cut painted paper, cut printed paper, marker and graphite on board

image: 53 ⅞ by 45 in. 136.8 by 114.3 cm.

board: 63 ⅞ by 47 ½ in. 162.2 by 120.7 cm.

Executed in 1995.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4409, illustrated in color (online)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, July - October 1999, no. 54, pp. 68-69, illustrated in color (detail) (titled Nude with Bust (collage for painting))

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna; and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Colección Costantini, Roy Lichtenstein: Desenhos: Vida animada / Drawings: Animated Life, September 2005 - August 2006, p. 65, illustrated in color (São Paulo, Curitiba); p. 71, illustrated in color (Buenos Aires)

Cuenca, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español (Lichtenstein: En proceso); Palma de Mallorca, Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani (Lichtenstein: En proceso); Madrid, Fundación Juan March (Roy Lichtenstein: De principio a fin, revised and expanded); Pinacothèque de Paris (Roy Lichtenstein: Évolution, revised and expanded); Katonah Museum of Art (Lichtenstein in Process, revised and abridged); Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Lichtenstein in Process, revised and abridged); and Malibu, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University (Lichtenstein in Process), November 2005 - April 2011, no. 61, p. 88, illustrated in color (detail) (Madrid, 2007) (titled Collage for Nude with Bust); no. 61, p. 88, illustrated in color (detail) (Paris) (titled Collage for Nude with Bust) (traveled to Madrid only)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Nude: From Modigliani to Currin, September - November 2016, pp. 140-41, illustrated in color (detail)