Irish & International Art Auction 5th December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures & Picture for in frame.

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Irish & International Art Auction
Monday 5th December 2016 at 6.00pm
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signed, numbered 23/60 & dated ‘90 lower right,
lithograph, woodcut, screenprint in colours on museum board, number 23 from an edition of 60 plus proofs
signed, numbered 23/60 & dated ‘90 lower right,
Printed by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA,
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
Provenance: Gemini G.E.L. Gallery, Los Angeles, USA;
Taylor Gallery, Belfast;
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin;
Private Collection
Literature: Catalogue raisonné: Corlett / Fine 251
€35,000-45,000 (£30,434-39,130)
Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923, in New York City. He studied under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in New York,
and under Hoyt L. Sherman at the School of Fine Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus.
In the early 1970s he explored further with his abstract Mirrors and Entablatures series. From 1974 through the 1980s he probed
another long-standing issue: the concept of artistic style. Lichtenstein continued to question the role of style in consumer culture in
his 1990s series Interiors, which included images of his own works as decorative elements.
From 1962 the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, held regular exhibitions of the artist’s work. Lichtenstein participated in the Venice
Biennale in 1966, and was honoured with solo exhibitions in 1967 and 1968 at the Pasadena Art Museum and the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, respectively. The artist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim in 1994,
three years before his death in 1997.