Pencil and Colored crayon drawing. Dated on the reverse. On Arches laid paper (with the watermark). 11.3 x 9.5 cm. Sheet: 32,1 x 19,7 cm.
From the artist's sketchbook "NY Central Marbled Sketchbook", around 1977/78 (RLCR 2683). Study for "Puzzle Portrait", 1978 (RLCR 2759).
- A rare work from the period of his greatest conceptual refinement. - An important preliminary study for the painting “Puzzle Portrait” (1978). - A puzzling beauty: Lichtenstein reinterprets his iconic blonde heroine through the imagery of Cubism and Surrealism. - Museum provenance: On loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for nearly a decade (1985-1994) - The year the work was created, Lichtenstein was honored in several exhibitions at, among others, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The work is registered at the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York, under the number "RL 2630".
LITERATURE: Andrea Theil, Puzzle Portrait (Study), 1978 (RLCR 2758), in: Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonné, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York, www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=2831 (last accessed March 25, 2026).

Museum of Modern Art, New York (on loan 1985-1994, from the artist’s collection). Roy Lichtenstein. Conversations with Surrealism, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, Sept. 19-Nov. 12, 2005, cat. no. 37 (illustrated in color)

From the artist's estate (with the label on the reverse of the frame). James Goodman Gallery, New York (with the label on the reverse of the frame). Private collection, USA (acquired from the above)

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