Lot Essay
“The dots can have a purely decorative meaning, or they can mean an industrial way of extending the color, or data information, or finally that the image is a fake.” - Roy Lichetenstein
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Water Lilies with Willows
Details
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Water Lilies with Willows
signed, numbered and dated 5⁄23 rf Lichtenstein '92' (on the reverse)
screenprinted enamel on stainless steel in artist's original painted frame
137.2 x 264 cm. (58 x 104 in.)
Executed in 1992
edition 5⁄23, aside from 7 artist’s proofs
Water Lilies with Willows
signed, numbered and dated 5⁄23 rf Lichtenstein '92' (on the reverse)
screenprinted enamel on stainless steel in artist's original painted frame
137.2 x 264 cm. (58 x 104 in.)
Executed in 1992
edition 5⁄23, aside from 7 artist’s proofs
Provenance
Private Collection
Sotheby’s New York, 10 November 2005, lot 235
Private Collection, USA (Acquired at the above sale by the present owner)
Sotheby’s New York, 10 November 2005, lot 235
Private Collection, USA (Acquired at the above sale by the present owner)
Literature
M. L. Corlett (ed.), Hudson Hills Press, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997, New York, 2002 (another edition illustrated, no. 266, p. 242).
M. S. Kushner, Prestel, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich/ Berlin/ London, 2010 (another edition illustrated, fig. 99, pp. 102, 104-105).
M. S. Kushner, Prestel, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, Munich/ Berlin/ London, 2010 (another edition illustrated, fig. 99, pp. 102, 104-105).
Exhibited
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Water Lilies, November-December 1992 (another edition exhibited).
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Last Still Life and Other Works, March 2004 (another edition exhibited).
New York, Jacobson Howard Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Water Lilies, May-June 2006 (another edition exhibited).
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Last Still Life and Other Works, March 2004 (another edition exhibited).
New York, Jacobson Howard Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Water Lilies, May-June 2006 (another edition exhibited).
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