Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Woman Reading
Auction Closed
May 14, 12:59 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Woman Reading
signed and dated '80 (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
54 by 70 in.
137.2 by 177.8 cm.
Executed in 1980.
The Mayor Gallery, London
Private Collection, Basel (acquired from the above in November 1980)
Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zürich (acquired from the above)
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in September 2017 by the present owner
Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, Chicago, 2006, no. 7.17, p. 360, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Milan, La Triennale di Milano, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, 2010, p. 270, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein: Expressionism, 2013, no. 65, p. 121, illustrated in color
Andrea Theil, “Woman Reading, 1980 (RLCR 2990),” Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2024 , illustrated in color (online) (ongoing)
London, The Mayor Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, Recent Paintings, October - November 1980
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice et les Années 60, June - October 1990
Norway, Høvikodden, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter and Denmark, Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Pop Art from the Lilja Collection: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Dine, February - April 1991, p. 33, illustrated in color
Ishøj, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Amerikanske Mestervæker fra Lilja Samlingen: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, June - September 1999, p. 34, illustrated in color
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Pop Art: Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist – Collection Lilja, October - November 1999
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, November 1999 - September 2002 (extended loan)
Zürich, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Pop Up - Warhol Lichtenstein Wesselmann, May - July 2014, no. 4
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