Catalogue entry
RLCR 872 (LC 757; RL 1344)
Head of Girl
1964
Title Source
RL Studio CardAlternate titles and sources: Maquette for Painted Ceramic Mannequin Head (Castelli); Painted Mannequin Head (RL Studio Photograph)
Media
Painted plasterDimensions
15 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (38.4 x 18.1 x 18.7 cm)Inscriptions
Initialed and dated underside: rfl '64Studio
36 West 26th Street, New YorkKeyword
CartoonsPhoto: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art (all primary images)
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Provenance
Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Collection, November 2000 (by gift)
Exhibitions
Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California, Roy Lichtenstein: Ceramic Sculpture, February 22–March 20, 1977 (Glenn, C. 1977b, no. 28 n.p. color ill. ).
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Roy Lichtenstein: Three Decades of Sculpture, August 15–October 4, 1992 (Guild Hall 1992, fig. 1 n.p. b/w ill. [flopped] ).
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Roy Lichtenstein: Imágenes reconocibles: Escultura, pintura y gráfica, July 9–October 18, 1998 (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1998, p. 29 color ill, p. 67 color ill. ). Traveled to: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, November 5, 1998–January 31, 1999; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 5–September 30, 1999 (as Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, revised and expanded) (Corcoran 1999, no. 6 p. 70 color ill. ); Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, October 21, 1999–January 9, 2000 (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1999, p. 29 color ill, p. 67 color ill. ); Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, A Coruña, Spain, January 27–April 23, 2000 (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1999, p. 29 color ill, p. 67 color ill. ); Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, May 11–August 15, 2000 (as Roy Lichtenstein: Imagens Reconhecíveis) (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 2000, p. 29 color ill, p. 67 color ill. ).
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside, December 11, 2001–February 24, 2002 (Clearwater 2001).
Gagosian Gallery (980 Madison Avenue), New York, Lichtenstein: Girls, May 12–June 28, 2008 (Gagosian, New York 2008, p. 56 color ill. ).
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 16–September 3, 2012 (only Paris) (Rondeau and Wagstaff, Sheena 2012). Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2012–January 13, 2013; Tate Modern, London, February 21–May 27, 2013 (as Lichtenstein: A Retrospective) (Dunne 2012); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, July 3–November 4, 2013 (as Roy Lichtenstein, revised and reorganized) (Dunne 2013); (Pompidou 2013); (Morineau 2013a, no. 78 p. 210 color ill. ).
Literature
Solomon, Alan (Photographs by Ugo Mulas). New York: The New Art Scene. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, p. 177 b/w ill. (with artist), n.p. following p. 177 b/w ill. (double spread, with artist).
Bandlow, Karen. Roy Lichtenstein und Ostasien. Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 59. Petersberg, Germany: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007, no. 2 p. 13 color ill.
Morel, Francis, ed. Connaissance des arts. Special issue, Roy Lichtenstein, no. 589 (July–August 2013), p. 43 color ill.
Celant, Germano. Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor. Milan: Skira Editore for Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, 2013. Exhibition catalogue (2013 Venice Vedova), no. 5 p. 49 color ill. (detail, with artist), no. 9 p. 53 color ill. (detail, with artist), [not exhibited].
Celant, Germano. Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor. Milan: Skira Editore for Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, 2013. Exhibition catalogue (2013 Venice Vedova), no. 5 p. 49 color ill. (detail; with artist), no. 9 p. 53 color ill. (detail; with artist), [not exhibited].
Archival Material
Same type of retail mannequin head, seen at FACE Stockholm, New York, 2011Click image to view.
Entry Updated November 9, 2023
Per Glenn, C. 1977b, this is one of two plaster heads that Lichtenstein bought in New York City's hat district near his studio. He hand-painted this head and added modeling clay to the second head to use as a model for casting the ceramic heads, RLCR 1221, 1016, 1212, 1081, 1080, 1017.