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

Roy Lichtenstein

Sleeping Muse

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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Sleeping Muse

incised with the artist's signature, numbered 1/6, dated '83 and stamped with the foundry mark (lower edge)

patinated bronze

25 ¾ by 34 ¼ by 4 in. 

65.4 by 87 by 10.2 cm.

Executed in 1983, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus 1 posthumous cast.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Louise Bernikow, "La Quinta Norte: Douglas S. Cramer's Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley," Architectural Digest, No. 4, April 1987, pp. 137, 141, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 143 (text) (edition 2/6)

Holly Solomon and Alexandra Anderson, Living with Art, New York, 1988, p. 184, illustrated in color (in installation, Douglas S. Cramer's home, Santa Ynez Valley) (edition 2/6) 

Exh. Cat., Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, 1993, p. 8, illustrated (photographed with the artist in the artist's studio on 29th Street, 1985)

Roni Feinstein, "Lichtenstein: Seeing Is Believing," Art in America, Vol. 90, No. 7, July 2002, p. 80, illustrated in color (in installation, North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001) and p. 81 (text) (edition 3/6)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, Roy Lichtenstein - Classic of the New, 2005, p. 207, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his New York apartment, 1983) (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Boca Raton Museum of Art, I Shot Warhol, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Indiana: Photographs by Bob Adelman and William John Kennedy, 2008, p. 57, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)

Valerie Oddos, "Centre Pompidou: Roy Lichtenstein at night from September 18," Franceinfo: Culture, 7 February 2013, illustrated in color (online) (edition no. unknown)

Jeanne Faton-Boyancé, ed. L'objet d'art. Special issue, Roy Lichtenstein exposition au Centre Pompidou, No. 69, July 2013, p. 38, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)

Francis Morel, ed. "Roy Lichtenstein au-delà du Pop Art," Connaissance des arts, No. 589, July - August 2013, p. 66, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)

Ryan Steadman, "Roy Lichtenstein's Totally Awesome 80s," Observer, 14 October 2015, illustrated in color (online) (edition 5/6)

Robin Pogrebin, "Roy Lichtenstein and Irving Blum: They Go Way Back," The New York Times, 4 September 2023, illustrated in color (online) (the present work)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 3255, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings; Green Street Mural, December 1983 - January 1984 (edition 2/6)

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and St. Louis Art Museum, Modern Art from the Pulitzer Collection: 50 Years of Connoisseurship, April - August 1988, no. 281, p. 767, illustrated (Cambridge) (edition 5/6) 

New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures, 1976-1989, May - July 1989, no. 25, pp. 4-5, 68-69, illustrated in color, p. 14 (text) (the present work)

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, October 1990 - September 1991 (traveled to Chicago and Los Angeles only) (edition 3/6)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University (abridged), Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 1993 - January 1996, no. S25, n.p., illustrated in color (New York) (except Los Angeles) (edition 3/6)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte (Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, revised and expanded); Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM); A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém (Roy Lichtenstein: Imagens Reconhecíveis), July 1998 - August 2000, pp. 35, 179, illustrated in color (Mexico City); no. 97, p. 4, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his New York apartment, 1983), p. 17 (text) and pp. 53, 148, illustrated in color (Washington, D.C.); pp. 35, 179, illustrated in color (Valencia, A Coruña, Lisbon) (edition 3/6)

New York, C&M Arts, About Faces, January - March 2001 (edition 3/6)

St. Louis, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Opening Installation, October 2001 - April 2002 (edition 5/6)

Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002, pl. 25, p. 43 (text), p. 80, illustrated (edition 3/6)

London, Gagosian Gallery and New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, June - October 2005, p. 13 (text) and pp. 64-65, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)

London, United States Embassy Residence, ART in Embassies Program, Modern American Classics, October 2005 - February 2009, p. 13, illustrated in color (edition 3/6)

Milan, Triennale di Milano (Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art) and Cologne, Museum Ludwig (Roy Lichtenstein: Kunst als Motiv), Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - October 2010, fig. 44, p. 318, illustrated in color (Milan); fig. 51, p. 318, illustrated in color (Cologne) (traveled to Milan only) (the present work)

St. Louis, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Dreamscapes, February - April 2011, p. 24, illustrated in color (in installation) (edition 5/6)

Art Institute of Chicago (Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective); Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective); London, Tate Modern (Lichtenstein: A Retrospective); and Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Roy Lichtenstein, revised and reorganized), May 2012 - November 2013, no. 82, p. 222, illustrated in color (Chicago); no. 127, p. 241, illustrated in color (Paris); p. 36, illustrated in color (Paris) (edition 3/6)

Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, May - November 2013, no. 125, p. 165, illustrated in color (the present work)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural, September - October 2015, p. 12, illustrated in color (in installation), pp. 138-39, illustrated in color (edition 5/6)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein Remembered, September - October 2023, p. 8, illustrated in color (in installation, Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), p. 12, illustrated (photographed with the artist in the artist's studio on 29th Street, 1985), pp. 54-55 (text), pp. 102-03, illustrated in color and 104-05, illustrated in color (detail) (the present work)