WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL CRICHTON
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Brushstroke

Details
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Brushstroke
Porcelain enamel on steel
26 x 42 in. (66 x 106.7 cm.)
Executed in 1965. This work is from an edition of six.
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Anon. sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 27 February 1974, lot 385
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Other Tradition, January-March 1966 (another example exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Mansfield, Ohio, Mansfield Art; Mansfield Fine Arts Guild; San Francisco State College; Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery; Van Nuys, Los Angeles Valley College; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Oswego, State University College, Art in the Mirror, November 1966-March 1968 (another example exhibited).
Stamford Museum of Art, I Can See the Whole Room, March-May 1978 (another example exhibited).
San Juan, Galerie Colibri; Munich, Galerie Friedrich and Dahlem; Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Montreal Museum of Fine Art; London Public Library and Art Museum; Edmonton, Edmonton Art Gallery, Eleven Pop Artists--The New Image, May 1965-January 1968.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Roy Lichtenstein, February-March 1970, no. 120 (another example exhibited).
Providence, Rhode Island Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum, Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, March-November 1985 (another example exhibited).
San Diego State University Gallery, Selections from the Michael Crichton Collection, April-June, 1980, p. 32.
Pomona College, Claremont, Montgomery Art Gallery, Prints and Drawings from the Michael Crichton Collection, November-December 1980.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Delaunay to de Kooning, Modern Masters from the Tremaine Collection and the Wadsworth Atheneum, May-September 1991 (another example exhibited).
Stanford, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, February-June 2004 (another example exhibited).

Lot Essay

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

"Visible brushstrokes in a painting convey a sense of grand gesture. But, in my hands, the brushstroke becomes a depiction of a grand gesture. So the contradiction between what I'm portraying and how I am portraying it is sharp. The brushstroke became very important for my work"

(Roy Lichtenstein, A Review of My work since 1961, 1995).

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