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Auction archive: Lot number 150

ROY LICHTENSTEIN Indian . Oil on canvas

Contemporary Art
12 May 2016
Estimate
US$60,000 - US$90,000
Price realised:
US$37,500
Auction archive: Lot number 150

ROY LICHTENSTEIN Indian . Oil on canvas

Contemporary Art
12 May 2016
Estimate
US$60,000 - US$90,000
Price realised:
US$37,500
Beschreibung:

ROY LICHTENSTEIN Indian . Oil on canvas, 1951. 508x410 mm; 20x16 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection Professor and Mrs. Roy H. Pearce, Columbus, OH, and La Jolla, CA, acquired directly from the artist. Exhibited, "San Diego Collects," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, 1975. Published in Busche, Roy Lichtenstein Das Fruhwerk, 1942-60 , Berlin, 1988, page 126, number 63. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné in preparation by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York, and is archived on the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation website. Roy Pearce (1919-2012) was a professor of literature and one of the founders of the University of California, San Diego, Literature Department in 1963. Prior to moving to California, Pearce taught at Ohio State University, where he met and befriended Lichtenstein, who earned his bachelor's degree there in 1946 and a master's in fine arts degree in 1949 (Lichtenstein also taught as an instructor in the fine arts dpeartment at Ohio State, a post he held intermitently during the 1950s). In 1951, Lichtenstein and his first wife, Isabel Wilson, moved to Cleveland and he had his first solo exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York. During his time in Cleveland, Lichtenstein pursued Native American-themed subjects in his paintings, drawings and prints. He was inspired by a book he had borrowed from Pearce on the art of the 19th century American painter George Caitlin, who specialized in Native American scenes and portraits. According to a New York Times interview in 2005, Lichtenstein referred to his 1950s paintings as, "Taking the kind of stodgy pictures you see in history textbooks and redoing them in a modern-art way." These early paintings, appropriated from 19th century models, are important thematic and stylistic precursors to Lichtenstein's comic strip-inspired subjects from the early 1960s onward, which are seminal works in the American Pop Art canon.

Auction archive: Lot number 150
Auction:
Datum:
12 May 2016
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

ROY LICHTENSTEIN Indian . Oil on canvas, 1951. 508x410 mm; 20x16 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection Professor and Mrs. Roy H. Pearce, Columbus, OH, and La Jolla, CA, acquired directly from the artist. Exhibited, "San Diego Collects," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, 1975. Published in Busche, Roy Lichtenstein Das Fruhwerk, 1942-60 , Berlin, 1988, page 126, number 63. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné in preparation by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York, and is archived on the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation website. Roy Pearce (1919-2012) was a professor of literature and one of the founders of the University of California, San Diego, Literature Department in 1963. Prior to moving to California, Pearce taught at Ohio State University, where he met and befriended Lichtenstein, who earned his bachelor's degree there in 1946 and a master's in fine arts degree in 1949 (Lichtenstein also taught as an instructor in the fine arts dpeartment at Ohio State, a post he held intermitently during the 1950s). In 1951, Lichtenstein and his first wife, Isabel Wilson, moved to Cleveland and he had his first solo exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York. During his time in Cleveland, Lichtenstein pursued Native American-themed subjects in his paintings, drawings and prints. He was inspired by a book he had borrowed from Pearce on the art of the 19th century American painter George Caitlin, who specialized in Native American scenes and portraits. According to a New York Times interview in 2005, Lichtenstein referred to his 1950s paintings as, "Taking the kind of stodgy pictures you see in history textbooks and redoing them in a modern-art way." These early paintings, appropriated from 19th century models, are important thematic and stylistic precursors to Lichtenstein's comic strip-inspired subjects from the early 1960s onward, which are seminal works in the American Pop Art canon.

Auction archive: Lot number 150
Auction:
Datum:
12 May 2016
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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