Roy Lichtenstein - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Castelli Graphics, Roy Lichtenstein: New Editions, Lithographs, Sculptures, Reliefs, September - October 1970 (another example exhibited)
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Multiples: The First Decade, March 5 - April 4, 1971, n.p. (another example exhibited)
    The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, A Selection of 20th Century Three-Dimensional Portraits and Related Drawings, November 1984 - January 1985, p. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August 15 - October 4, 1992, n.p. (another example exhibited)
    Mexico City, Museo del Palacio De Bellas Artes, Salas Nacional y Diego Rivera; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art (as Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture & Drawings, cat. no. 34, pp. 57, 96, illustrated, p. 96); Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; La Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Roy Lichtenstein, Escultura, Pintura Y Grafica, July 1998 - August 2000 (another example exhibited)
    Washington, D.C., The White House, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House - Exhibition V, 1997, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • Literature

    Gregorio Magnani and Daniel Buchholz, eds., International Index of Multiples: From Duchamp to the Present, Cologne, 1993, p. 125 (another example)

Property from an Important East Coast Collection

231

Untitled Head I

incised with the artist's signature, number and date "Lichtenstein '70 25/75" and stamped with Gemini foundry mark on a plaque affixed to the underside
brass
25 1/2 x 11 x 6 in. (64.8 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1970, this work is number 25 from an edition of 75.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $50,000

Contact Specialist
John McCord
Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
New York
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 14 November 2018