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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Untitled Head I
incised with the artist's signature, numbered and dated 'rf Lichtenstein 62/75 '70' (on a plate affixed to the underside of the base)
brass
2512 x 11 x 6 in. (64.8 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1970. This work is number sixty-two from an edition of seventy-five.
Provenance
Private collection, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003
Literature
G. Magnani and D. Buchholz, International Index of Multiples: From Duchamp to the Present, Cologne, 1993, p. 125 (another example illustrated).
Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor, exh. cat., Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, 2013, pp. 35, 92, fig. 31, no. 49 (another example illustrated).
A. Thiel, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 1810 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
Stockholm, Thordén Wetterling Galleries, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Graphics, 1980–1986, November 1986-January 1987, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Los Angeles, Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstrokes: Six Painted Reliefs, March-April 1987, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Subject/Object, June-September 1989, n.p., no. 9 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art (as Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, revised and expanded); Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém (as Roy Lichtenstein: Imagens Reconhecíveis), Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 1998-August 2000 (another example exhibited).
Portland Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, October 2005-February 2006 (another example exhibited).
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