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Lot Essay
This work will appear in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
“His sculptures, including his bronzes, kept from any patently anecdotal or narrative suggestion while keeping the door ajar, so to speak, to the faces of the familiar—lamps, tables, glasses, fish in bowls, mirrors—the appurtenances of everyday life. Inviting and familiar as they are, however, these sculptures propose no heuristic end, such as that of trying to awaken us to the beauty of commonplace items about us. Lichtenstein’s commonplace is chimerical and melts into pure abstraction…”
Frederic Tuten quoted in Roy Lichtenstein Bronze Sculpture 1976-1989, Sixty-Five Thompson Street, New York, 1989, p. 16.
“His sculptures, including his bronzes, kept from any patently anecdotal or narrative suggestion while keeping the door ajar, so to speak, to the faces of the familiar—lamps, tables, glasses, fish in bowls, mirrors—the appurtenances of everyday life. Inviting and familiar as they are, however, these sculptures propose no heuristic end, such as that of trying to awaken us to the beauty of commonplace items about us. Lichtenstein’s commonplace is chimerical and melts into pure abstraction…”
Frederic Tuten quoted in Roy Lichtenstein Bronze Sculpture 1976-1989, Sixty-Five Thompson Street, New York, 1989, p. 16.