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Modern Painting with Sun Rays

Hirshhorn

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Object Details

Artist

Roy Lichtenstein, American, b. New York City, 1923–1997

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, to 31 October 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Greenwich, Connecticut, 31 October 1967-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

LEO CASTELLI GALLERY, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein," 28 October-18 November 1967.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, Cincinnati. "Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," 7-31 December 1967, ill.
MARY BROGAN MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE, Tallahassee. "The Big Idea: Pop Art and the Space Age," 20 February-16 May 2004.
RICHARD GRAY GALLERY, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein's Modern Paintings," 30 October-11 December 2010, color ill. p. 19.

Published References

UNSIGNED. Property from the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Collection, auction catalog,16 May 2019 (New York: Phillips, 2019), color ill. p. 56.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981

Date

1967

Accession Number

86.3042

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil and magna on canvas

Dimensions

48 1/8 × 68 in. (122.3 × 172.7 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Pop Art (American)

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2c33662d4-94d2-4642-a887-575efe1cd772

Record ID

hmsg_86.3042

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