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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2025 | Small Wall Explosion | 6 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
55.6 x 52.1 x 18.7 cm (21.89 x 20.51 x 7.36 in)
porcelain enamel on steel and perforated steel
signed, dated "65 and numbered 6/6 (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner
Milan, Gian Enzo Sperone, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Dine, Rosenquist, April - May 1966, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Roy Lichtenstein , September 1969 - August 1970, no. 91, p. 85, illustrated (present example)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Roy Lichtenstein, June - September 1973, no. 7 (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture , August - October 1992, no. 2, illustrated in color (present example)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM); A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings , July 1998 - August 2000, no. 16, p. 81, illustrated in color (present example)
North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 2001 - February 2002 (present example)
Venice, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor , May - November 2013, no. 20, p. 64, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, Metonymies: A Dialogue with Twentieth-Century Works from the Sonnabend Collection , February - April 2019 (another example exhibited)
Erika Billeter, "Pop im Examen: Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Rauschenberg, Segal," Speculum artis, issue 17, no. 9, October 1965, p. 32, illustrated
Max Kozloff, "Lichtenstein at the Guggenheim," Artforum , issue 8, no. 3, November 1969, p. 41, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Mayagüez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop , April - May 1970, no. 10, n.p., illustrated
Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein , New York 1971, no. 117, n.p., illustrated
Marilyn S. Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration , Munich 2010, no. 157, p. 148, illustrated in color
Andrea Theil, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné , New York, 2023 - ongoing, RLCR 1155, illustrated in color (online)
Roy"s Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Small Wall Explosion
signed, dated "65 and numbered 6/6 (on the reverse)
porcelain enamel on steel and perforated steel
21 ⅞ 20 ½ by 7 ⅜ in.
55.6 by 52.1 by 18.7 cm.
Executed in 1965, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.
