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

Roy Lichtenstein

Still Life with Picasso (Study)

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Still Life with Picasso (Study)

signed and dated ‘73 (on the reverse)

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

image: 28 ½ by 21 in. 28.5 by 53.3 cm.

board: 29 by 21 ½ in. 73.7 by 54.6 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Estate of the artist

Thence by descent to the present owner

Griffin Smith, “Pop Art’s Lichtenstein Fuels a Furor,” Miami Herald, 11 April 1976, p. H2, illustrated (incorrect orientation)

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 2211, illustrated in color (online)

Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Centre Beaubourg (Roy Lichtenstein: Dessins sans bande); Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Roy Lichtenstein: Zeichnungen); and Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen (Pop Art: Roy Lichtenstein), January - September 1975, p. 69, illustrated (detail) (Paris) (titled Homage to Picasso); no. 121, p. 30, illustrated in color (detail) (Berlin, Aachen) (titled Homage á Picasso)

Columbus, Sullivant Gallery, College of the Arts, Ohio State University (Lichtenstein: Posters, Prints, Drawing, Painting) and Kent, School of Art, Kent State University (Lichtenstein: Paintings, Drawings, Collages, Prints), October 1975 - January 1976

Coral Gables, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Roy Lichtenstein, March - April 1976

New York, Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: Collages, October 1976

Valencia, CalArts Galleries, Roy Lichtenstein at CalArts: Drawings and Collages from the Artist’s Collection, April - May 1977, no. 45, p. 86, illustrated 

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Penthouse Exhibition: Around Picasso, May - September 1980

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Aspects of Collage, May - June 1991

Pully-Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain and Tate Liverpool, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1992 - April 1993, p. 71, illustrated in color (detail) (Pully-Lausanne) (only traveled to Pully-Lausanne) (incorrectly titled Collage for "Homage to Picasso", painting study)

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Picasso: A Contemporary Dialogue, July - August 1996, no. 72, p. 96, illustrated in color (detail)

Alburquerque Museum, Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium, September 1999 - January 2000, no. 32, p. 86 (text) and p. 87, illustrated in color (detail) (incorrectly titled Homage to Picasso, Collage for print)

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. 31, p. 49, illustrated in color (detail) (Cuenca, Parma, 2005); no. 7, p. 45, illustrated in color (detail) (Madrid, 2007) (titled Collage for Still Life with Picasso); no. 7, p. 45, illustrated in color (detail) (Paris) (titled Collage for Still Life with Picasso) (except Katonah)

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