ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Modern Painting with Ionic Column

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Modern Painting with Ionic Column
signed and dated ‘rf Lichtenstein ‘67’ (on the reverse)
acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas
62 x 82 1/8 in. (157.5 x 208.6 cm.)
Painted in 1967.
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Gardner and Jan Cowles, New York, 1968
Richard Benedek, New York
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, circa 1974
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 18 May 1978, lot 267
Private collection
Private collection, by descent from the above, 2007
Private collection, Beverly Hills
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
V. Lawford, “A Reflection of Now: Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Cowles’s New York Apartment Brilliantly Mirrors Today’s Surge for Nonstop Space,” Vogue, vol. 158, no. 6, 1 October 1971, pp. 182 and 184 (illustrated).
J. Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1972, p. 149, no. VIII (illustrated).
Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Paintings, exh. cat., New York, Richard Gray Gallery, 2010, pp. 30-31, no. 34 (illustrated).
Lichtenstein: Kunst als Motiv, exh. cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 2010, p. 180, no. S 178 (illustrated).
Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, exh. cat., Milan Triennale, 2010, p. 180 (illustrated).
A. Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 1398 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, December 1967-February 1968, p. 10, no. 80.
Cleveland, New Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Major Works – Graphics – Posters, February-March 1969.
Stuttgart, Fischer Fine Art Ltd, Paintings by Colville, Lichtenstein and Linder, October 1974, pp. 6 and 12, no. 5 (illustrated).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work, 1965-1970, November-December 1978.

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