ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
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The Collection of Antonio Homem Sonnabend
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Couch

Details
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Couch
signed with the artist's initials 'rfl' (lower right)
marker on paper
19 7⁄8 x 23 1⁄8 in. (48.6 x 58.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1961.
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Michael and Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, by 1970
By descent from the above to the late owner
Literature
P. Bianchini, ed., Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, Lausanne, 1970, pp. 18-20 and 32-33, no. 61-3 (illustrated).
J. Coplans, ed., Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1972, p. 38 (illustrated).
Roy Litchenstein, Zeichnungen, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 1975, n.p., no. 3 (illustrated).
N. Blondin-Dubreuil, "Roy Lichtenstein: L'atelier d'artiste ou l'auto-référence dans le pop," Parachute, no. 19, Summer 1980, p. 15 (illustrated).
P. Richard, "The Teeming Images of Roy Lichtenstein: At the Corcoran, a Delightful Retrospective," Washington Post, 27 September 1988, p. C2 (illustrated).
Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1999, p. 15 (illustrated).
Roy Lichtenstein 1961-63, exh. cat., New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2017, no. 2 (illustrated and installation view illustrated).
A. Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. RLCR 626 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Centre Beaubourg, Centre National d'Art Contemporain and Aachen, Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Roy Lichtenstein: Dessins sans bande, January-September 1975 (Paris, p. 12, illustrated; Aachen, p. 13, no. 3, illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; Tel Aviv Museum; Dublin, Trinity College, Douglas Hyde Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, March 1987-November 1988, p. 59, no. 3 (illustrated).
Southampton City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Galleries; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery and London, Whitechapel Gallery, Drawing the Line, January-September 1995, p. 59, no. 118 (illustrated).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein: Early Black and White Paintings, November-December 2001, p. 34 (illustrated).
Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein: All about Art, August 2003-February 2005, pp. 57 and 142, no. 60 (illustrated).
New York, Morgan Library and Museum and Vienna, Albertina, Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968, September 2010-May 2011, no. 5 (New York, pp. 37, 45 and 84-85, illustrated; Vienna, p. 89, illustrated).

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"The couch was, I thought, a wonderful image. It was undoubtably taken from a newspaper ad for a couch, I imagine. And, you know, it's just a terrible looking couch and it's so mechanical and unsympathetic... I couldn't resist drawing that." -Roy Lichtenstein

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