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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Lot 172

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

The Red Horseman (Study)

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 562,500

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The Red Horseman (Study)
titled and inscribed 'Carlo Carra "The Red Horseman" 1913' (lower right); signed and dated 'R Lichtenstein '74' (on the reverse)
colored pencil, graphite and paper collage on paper
image: 14 3⁄4 x 19 1⁄2 in. (36.8 x 49.5 cm.)
sheet: 20 3⁄8 x 23 1⁄2 in. (51.8 x 59.7 cm.)
Executed in 1974.

Paul and Diane Waldman, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private collection, United States
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005

Specialist note

"Ironies are also thick... in "Red Horseman" (1974), where the source is Carlo Carra and the dazzle of Ben Day dots neatly evokes the sense of movement for which the Futurists strove. Lichtenstein's talent, and it's a considerable one, is to pump fresh blood into such canonical works of modernism, at the same time he gently mocks their exalted status (M. Kimmelman, "On Top With Pop: A Virtuoso of Irony," New York Times, 8 October 1993).