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Lot 125 Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, California
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Paintings: Alizarin Brushstroke
Closed15 November 2012
Price Realised
USD 362,500
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Specialist note
"Like Andy Warhol's Soup Cans, Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes were, clearly and at first glance, generational icons. They proposed a critique of the immediate past, clearly intending to supersede it without destroying it - to propose something new that would renew the past" -
D. Hickey, Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes: Four Decades, New York, 2001, p. 11.
Executed in 1984, this work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
D. Hickey, Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes: Four Decades, New York, 2001, p. 11.
Executed in 1984, this work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.