Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000469
Raumbeispiel
126000469
Roy Lichtenstein
Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 58,500 - 81,900
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000469
Roy Lichtenstein
Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 58,500 - 81,900
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Sweet Dreams, Baby!. 1965.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 200 copies. On firm wove paper. 90.5 x 65 cm (35.6 x 25.5 in). Sheet: 95,6 x 70,1 cm (37,6 x 27,6 in).
From the portfolio "11 Pop Artists, Vol. III". Printed by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York (KMF), and Dawa Basanow. Published by Original Editions, New York.
Also known by the title "Pow!". [KA].
• One of the earliest works to demonstrate Lichtenstein’s signature style, which echoes the imagery of comic books.
• 1965: at the height of Lichtenstein’s breakthrough after several successful solo exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.
• For the three volumes of the “11 Pop Artists” portfolio, American and British artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jim Dine, each contributed three prints in 1965.
• The works in the portfolios were exhibited in numerous American museums and galleries between 1965 and 1968 as part of the “Pop and Op” exhibition.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hamburg.
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the estate of the above).
LITERATURE: (likely different copy in each case)
Andrea Theil, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965 (RLCR 1172), in: Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonné, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York (www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=216 (accessed April 28, 2026)).
Mary Lee Corlett, The prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A catalogue raisonné 1948-1997, New York 1994, CR no. 39 (illustrated in color).
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Paul Bianchini, Roy Lichtenstein. Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, cat. no. 11 (illustrated in black and white on p. 220).
“Roy Lichtenstein, certainly one of the most important artists of our era, indeed the creator of an extraordinary body of work.”
Leo Castelli, quoed from: Kunstforum international, vol. 137, 1997.
1923 - 1997
Sweet Dreams, Baby!. 1965.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 200 copies. On firm wove paper. 90.5 x 65 cm (35.6 x 25.5 in). Sheet: 95,6 x 70,1 cm (37,6 x 27,6 in).
From the portfolio "11 Pop Artists, Vol. III". Printed by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York (KMF), and Dawa Basanow. Published by Original Editions, New York.
Also known by the title "Pow!". [KA].
• One of the earliest works to demonstrate Lichtenstein’s signature style, which echoes the imagery of comic books.
• 1965: at the height of Lichtenstein’s breakthrough after several successful solo exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.
• For the three volumes of the “11 Pop Artists” portfolio, American and British artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jim Dine, each contributed three prints in 1965.
• The works in the portfolios were exhibited in numerous American museums and galleries between 1965 and 1968 as part of the “Pop and Op” exhibition.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hamburg.
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the estate of the above).
LITERATURE: (likely different copy in each case)
Andrea Theil, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965 (RLCR 1172), in: Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonné, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York (www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=216 (accessed April 28, 2026)).
Mary Lee Corlett, The prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A catalogue raisonné 1948-1997, New York 1994, CR no. 39 (illustrated in color).
- -
Paul Bianchini, Roy Lichtenstein. Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, cat. no. 11 (illustrated in black and white on p. 220).
“Roy Lichtenstein, certainly one of the most important artists of our era, indeed the creator of an extraordinary body of work.”
Leo Castelli, quoed from: Kunstforum international, vol. 137, 1997.
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