A major highlight of Sotheby’s New York’s forthcoming Contemporary Art, Evening Auction is Roy Lichtenstein’s “White Brushstroke I” of 1965 carrying an estimate of $20/30 million.

One of the most striking examples from Lichtenstein’s iconic series of Brushstroke paintings, “White Brushstroke I” is from a series of 15 canvases executed in 1965-66 and which are regarded as pivotal masterworks of the Pop Art movement.

The painting is one of the few Brushstroke canvases remaining in private hands, with eight examples already held in or promised to such museum collections as the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others.

White Brushstroke I was first exhibited in the historic debut of the series at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in November-December 1965. The painting also has featured in numerous museum exhibitions covering Lichtenstein’s career, including: the artist’s early survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1969; the major traveling retrospective organized by the Guggenheim from 1993–94; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and several other preeminent institutions.

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