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Property from the Collection of Eliot and Wilson "Roly" Nolen

Roy Lichtenstein

Brushstroke Head II

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Eliot and Wilson "Roly" Nolen

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997


Brushstroke Head II

incised with the artist's signature, date '87 and number 5/6 (on the base)

painted bronze

29 by 17 by 14 in.

74 by 43.2 by 35.6 cm.

Executed in 1987, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo (acquired from the above in November 1987)

Sotheby's New York, 13 November 2002, lot 282

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Germano Celant, Roy Lichtentein Sculptor, Venice, 2013, no. 152, illustrated in color

Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2023 – ongoing, RLCR 3595, illustrated in color (online)

Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, In Honor of Leo Castelli Gallery's 30th Anniversary: New Works by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, January - February 1988, n.p., illustrated in color

Philadelphia, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, That Was Then: This Is Now, October - November 1988 (another example exhibited)

Helsinki, Helsingin Taidehalli, Modern Masters '89, May - July 1989, no. 41, p. 122, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, 65 Thompson Street, Roy Lichtenstein: Bronze Sculptures 1976 - 1989, no. 29, p. 77, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Zürich, De Pury und Luxembourg, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades, November 2001 - June 2002, no. 24, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Art Institute of Chicago; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 2012 - November 2013, no. 125, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Re-Figure, November 2016 - January 2017 (another example exhibited)

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Roy Lichtenstein: The Loaded Brush, July - September 2019, p. 114, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)