Cubist Still Life

1974

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

An instrument, forms possibly representing grapes, wood grain, and other shapes are painted with hard-edged black outlines filled in with white, gray, red, or yellow in this abstracted, vertical still life painting. A fragmented guitar takes up most of the middle of the composition. Gray, black, and red areas of wood grain are spaced around and across the painting. Stylized molding stretches behind the objects, and white balls with black dashes, suggesting glints, could be grapes near the lower right.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil and Magna on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace

  • Dimensions

    overall: 228.6 x 173.2 cm (90 x 68 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.50.1

  • Copyright

    © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Leo Castelli, New York); sold 1974 to Paine Webber/Mitchell, Hutchins Group, New York;[1] Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Marron, New York, by 1981;[2] purchased 1983 through (Leo Castelli, New York) by NGA.
[1] E-mail message, 20 December 2012, from Natasha Sigmund, Registrar, Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, New York, copy in NGA curatorial files.
[2] The painting was lent by the corporation to a 1978 exhibition. Mr. Marron was the corporation's CEO, and its collection grew out of his own personal collecting. The Marrons are listed as lenders to a 1981 exhibition.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • In Three Dimensions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1974.

1975

  • Roy Lichtenstein: Posters, Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Sullivan Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1975.

1976

  • Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Sculptures by Roy Lichtenstein, Seattle Art Museum, 1976.

1978

  • Art at Work: Recent Art from Corporate Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1978, no. 17, repro.

1979

  • Art Inc: American Paintings from Corporate Collections, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Indianapolis Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art, 1979, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1981

  • Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, Saint Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fort Worth Art Museum, 1981-1982, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1993

  • Roy Lichtenstein, travelling exh. organized by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (7 venues), 1993-1996, no. 175, repro. (shown only at Guggenheim Museum, New York, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal).

2012

  • Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2012-2013, no. 75, repro.

Bibliography

1989

  • Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 128, repro. 129.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 227, repro.

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 273, repro.

Inscriptions

center left reverse: rf Lichtenstein / '74

Wikidata ID

Q20197626

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