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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 125 | $****** - ****** | Head with Braids |
paintings
127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in)
oil and magna on canvas
signed and dated '© rf Lichtenstein '79' (on the reverse)
The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, New York
Private collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011
Eau Claire, University of Wisconsin, Foster Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein , January-February 1980.
Oregon, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Roy Lichtenstein: Recent Paintings and Sculptures , March-April 1980 (illustrated on the exhibition poster).
Saint Louis Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, May-June 1981, pp. 111 and 133 (illustrated).
New Jersey, Monclair Art Museum; Santa Fe, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico; Washington, Tacoma Art Museum; Water Mill, Parrish Art Museum and Indianapolis, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters, October 2005-April 2007, pp. 6, 37 and 70, no. 24 (illustrated).
L. Alloway, Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1983, p. 94, no. 95 (illustrated).
Kodansha Ltd., Contemporary Great Masters: Roy Lichtenstein , Tokyo, 1992, no. 39 (illustrated).
G. Serafini, Roy Lichtenstein , Florence, 2000, p. 45.
G. Glueck, "A pop artist's fascination with the first Americans," The New York Times , 25 December 2005, p. E5.
G. Stavitsky and T. Johnson, "Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters," American Art Review , December 2005, p. 126 (illustrated).
R. Kalina, "Lichtenstein's Indian Territory," Art in America , April 2006, p. 145 (illustrated).
L. Kirwin, Artists in their Studios: Images from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art , New York, 2007, pp. 162 and 163 (illustrated).
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Head with Braids
signed and dated '© rf Lichtenstein '79' (on the reverse)
oil and Magna on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1979.
