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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2022 | Modern Sculpture with Velvet Rope | 3 | Phillips | New York | |||
sculpture
149.9 x 63.5 x 38.1 cm (59 x 25 x 15 in)
brass and velvet rope, in 3 parts
incised with the artist's initials, number and foundry mark "rfl 3-3" on the edge of each base
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fischmann, St. Louis (acquired from the above in 1972)
Max Palevsky, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1974)
Christie's, New York, May 6, 1986, lot 56
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Roy Lichtenstein , September-November 1969, no. 67 (another example exhibited)
London, Hayward Gallery, Pop Art , July 9-September 3, 1969
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Lichtenstein: Sculptures , opened March 3, 1970
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition: John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol , June 17-September 23, 1972
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein , January 2-31, 1973
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work, 1965-1970 , November 8-December 31, 1978 (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture , August 15-October 4, 1992 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; The Montreal Museum Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein , October 8, 1993-September 5, 1994, no. 253, pp. 321, 324-325 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 324-325)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica , July 9-October 18, 1998, p. 98; traveled as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings (revised and expanded), November 5, 1998-September 30, 1999, no. 19, p. 84; then traveled as Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Imagens Reconhecíveis , October 21, 1999-August 15, 2000 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbia Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Oakland Museum of California, Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art , September 9, 1999-January 6, 2002 (another example exhibited)
The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Tate Modern; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective , May 16, 2012-November 4, 2013, no. 93, p. 239 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Paul Katz, “Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Sculpture with Velvet Rope,” Art Now , New York, I/1, January 1969
Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein , New York, 1971, no. 159, pp. 204-205, 247 (another example illustrated, pp. 204-205)
John Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein , New York and Washington, D.C., 1972, no. 60 (another example illustrated)
Lawrence Alloway, Modern Masters Series: Roy Lichtenstein , New York, 1983, no. 57, pp. 58-59 (another example illustrated, p. 59)
Susan Morgan, “A Few Good Colors Are Plenty: Has it really been 30 years since Roy Lichtenstein first brought us those cartoon paintings? Well, yes. And now take a guided tour with the artist through his life, times and all those dots,” Los Angeles Times , January 30, 1994, online
Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art , London, 2013, pp. 87-88 (another example illustrated, p. 88)
Germano Celant, ed., Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor , ehx. cat., Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Milan, 2013, no. 45, pp. 88-89, 279 (another example illustrated, p. 89)
incised with the artist's initials, number and foundry mark "rfl 3-3" on the edge of each base
brass and velvet rope, in 3 parts
left 59 x 25 x 15 in. (149.9 x 63.5 x 38.1 cm)
right 83 1/4 x 26 x 15 in. (211.5 x 66 x 38.1 cm)
rope length 72 in. (182.9 cm)
Executed in 1968, this work is number 3 from an intended edition of 3 (4 were fabricated).
Other examples from the edition are housed in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
