Modern Head #1
started 1969, published 1970
Artist, American, 1923 - 1997
Printer, American, born 1941
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on Hoshi laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 61.6 × 48.9 cm (24 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
image: 51.28 × 31.75 cm (20 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1981.83.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 91
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Copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade, Beverly Hills, California; acquired 1981 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1984
Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Yonago City Museum, Japan; Machida City Museum of Graphics Art, Japan, 1984-1989, no. 83.
1994
The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1994-1995, no. 40.
Bibliography
1966
Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 242.
2002
Corlett, Mary Lee, and Ruth E. Fine. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. New York and Washington, D.C.: Hudson Hills Press and the National Gallery of Art, 2002, p. 112, no. 91.
2011
Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 31.23. http://www.nga.gov/gemini
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: 73/100; lower right in graphite: rf Lichtenstein '70; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: RL70-243
Markings
embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.
Wikidata ID
Q74038194