Roy Lichtenstein - Unbound: Online Only New York Thursday, October 18, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Description

    “I think of Art Deco as Cubism for the home. It seems mathematical and intellectual rather than visceral, closer to my way of working." Roy Lichtenstein

    Drawing inspiration from the design motifs and architectural elements of the 1920s and 1930s, Lichtenstein designed a poster for Lincoln Center in 1966 which initiated his visual investigation into the streamlined industrial style of the art deco movement. The present lot, part of Lichtenstein’s series of works titled Modern Head was started in the late 1960s and was inspired by Alexei von Jawlensky’s Constructivist portrait heads shown in 1968 as part of the exhibition Serial Imagery held at the Pasadena Art Museum. The facial profile of a figure has merged with linear geometrics and curvilinear lines drawing visual reference to art deco’s revival of the perfectionist ideal of the classical, Greek, human form.

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L.: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1966–2005, Washington D.C., 2018, no. 246, n.p., online (another example illustrated)
    Mary Lee Corlett and Ruth E. Fine, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1993, New York and Washington D.C., 1994, no. 95

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Modern Head #5 from Modern Head Series

signed, numbered and dated "35/100 Roy Lichtenstein '70" lower edge; further blindstamped and ink stamped by Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles on the reverse
embossed graphite and Strathmore die-cut paper overlay, in original aluminum frame with wood stretcher support
28 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (72.1 x 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1970, this work is number 35 from an edition of 100 plus 7 artist's proofs, published by Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles.

Estimate
$9,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $8,750

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Unbound: Online Only

Bidding Closes 30 October 2018