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

Roy Lichtenstein

Nude with Pyramid (Study)

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Nude with Pyramid (Study)

signed and dated ‘94 (on the reverse)

colored pencil and graphite on paper

image: 11 ⅜ by 9 ½ in. 28.9 by 24.1 cm.

sheet: 13 ⅛ by 11 ⅛ in. 33.3 by 28.3 cm.

Executed in 1994.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Mercè Ibarz, “Roy Lichtenstein el pintor en su taller,” La Vanguardia, 18 March 2007, p. 24, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 4299, illustrated in color (online)

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; New York, Huntington Museum of Art; and Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Man Hit by the 21st Century, November 1997 - May 1999 (titled Study for Nude with Pyramid)

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. 46, p. 60, illustrated in color (Cuenca, Palma 2005); no. 41, p. 70, illustrated in color (Madrid, 2007) (titled Drawing for Nude with Pyramid); p. 24, illustrated in color (detail) (Katonah) (traveled to Cuenca, Palma, Madrid, Paris, Memphis, Pepperdine only)

New York, The FLAG Art Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein: Nudes and Interiors, February - May 2014, p. 9 (text) and p. 31, illustrated in color (detail) (titled Drawing for Nude with Pyramid)