LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and Magna on canvas

Measurements:

47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (height) by 47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated ‘rf Lichtenstein '64’ (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Art Institute of Chicago, 24th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, May 1964, no. 30. Munich, Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Kunstverein; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Kunsthalle Bern, Sammlung 1968: Karl Ströher, June 1968-September 1969, pp. 7 and 76, no. 64 (illustrated in color, Haus der Kunst, Munich), pp. 18 and 55, no. 31 (illustrated in color, Klein & Volbert, Munich), p. 82, no. 64 (illustrated in color, Hamburg). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, September-November 1969, p. 56, no. 34 (illustrated). Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Bildnerische Ausdruckstormen 1960-1970: Sammlung Karl Ströher im Hessischen Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, April –June 1970, pp. 216-217 (illustrated in color). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein, October 1993-September 1994, pp. 117, 122 and 393, no. 110 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

J. Rublowsky, Pop Art, New York, 1965, pp. 10, 55 and 182 (illustrated in color). F. du Plessix Gray, "The House that Pop Art Built," House & Garden, May 1965 (installation view illustrated in color). H. Dauman, "You Bought it, Now Live With It," Life, v. 59, 16 July 1965 (installation view illustrated in color). A. Boatto and G. Falzoni, eds., “Lichtenstein,” Fantazaria, v. 1, no. 2, July-August 1966, p. 69 (illustrated). P. Tuchman, “American Art in Germany, The History of a Phenomenon,” Artforum, v. 9, November 1970, p. 63 (illustrated). D. Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1971, pl. 84 (illustrated in color). H. Ohff, Galerie der neuen Künste, Revolution ohne Programm, Gütersloh, 1971, p. 257 (illustrated in color). J. Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1972, pp. 9, 37, and 117, pl. 40 (illustrated). D. Honisch and J.C. Jensen, Amerikanische Kunst von 1945 bis heute, Cologne, 1976, p. 173. D. Lauer, Design Basics, New York, 1979, pp. 164-165 (illustrated). K. K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart, 1982, p. 149, no. 323 (illustrated in color). L. Alloway, Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1983, p. 35, pl. 31 (illustrated in color). E. Busche, Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Paintings 1961-1969, Munich, 1989, p. 85, pl. 31 (illustrated in color). C. Whiting, A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture, Cambridge and New York, 1997, p. 91, fig. 29 and cover (installation view illustrated in color). Les Années Pop: 1956-1968, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 2001, no. 64.92 bis (illustrated in color). M. Lobel, Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art, New Haven, 2002, p. 143. Roy Lichtenstein—All About Art, exh. cat., Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2003, p. 121 (studio view illustrated). Roy Lichtenstein, Classic of the New, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2005, p. 95 (illustrated in color). Roy Lichtenstein: Girls, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2008, p. 14 (studio view illustrated). Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, exh. cat., Milan, La Triennale di Milano, 2010, p. 88 (studio view illustrated).

Provenance:

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Leon Kraushar, New York Karl Ströher, Darmstadt Peter Brant, Greenwich Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 2 May 1995, lot 27 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner