Porcelain enamel on steel
24 x 48 in. (61 x 121.9 cm)
Most enamels are signed, dated and numbered verso. Ed. 8/10 is signed and numbered. Ed. 9/10 is inscribed, signed, dated and numbered on strainer.
Classification: enamel (editioned)
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Catalogue entry

Artwork: Hot Dog, 1964 (fabricated 1964) (RLCR 877)  Ed. unknown
Ed. unknown
RLCR 877 (LC 171, LC 172, LC 173, LC 174; RL 1508)
Status: Research Pending
Hot Dog
1964 (fabricated 1964)
Title Source
Castelli; RL Studio Card
Media
Porcelain enamel on steel
Dimensions
24 x 48 in. (61 x 121.9 cm)
Description
Edition of 10
Fabricator: Ben Birillo (?)
Inscriptions
Most enamels are signed, dated and numbered verso. Ed. 8/10 is signed and numbered. Ed. 9/10 is inscribed, signed, dated and numbered on strainer.
Ed. 877.1/10
"s/d on reverse" (per RLF records)
Ed. 877.2/10
"s/d on reverse" (per RLF records)
Ed. 877.3/10
rf Lichtenstein 1964 / 3/10
Ed. 877.4/10
rf Lichtenstein 1964 / 4/10
Ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)
rf Lichtenstein 1964 / 5/10
Ed. 877.6/10 (LC 172)
rf Lichtenstein 1964 6/10
Ed. 877.7/10 (LC 173)
rf Lichtenstein 1964 / 7/10
Ed. 877.8/10 (LC 174)
rf Lichtenstein / 8/10 [partially covered by strainer]
Ed. 877.9/10
To Leo from Roy / rf Lichtenstein 1964; 9/10 [upside down]
Ed. 877.10/10
"signed and dated on verso, middle of back" (per Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art RLF Questionnaire)
Related Works
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Provenance
Ed. 877.1/10
(...)
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, c. 1973
(Auction 393, New York, March 20, 1976)
(...)
Ed. 877.2/10
(...)
Ed. 877.3/10
Ben Birillo, New York City (artist sale)
Leon Kraushar, Lawrence, N.Y. (via Bianchini Gallery, New York City)
Ethel Kraushar, Lawrence, N.Y., September 1967 (by descent)
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt, Germany, 1968 [Karl Ströher Collection, 1977]
(Sotheby's, New York, May 2, 1989, Pop Art from the Collection of the Late Karl Ströher, sale 5844, lot 3)
Private collection
Ed. 877.4/10
(...)
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Private collection, Italy, late 1960s
Collection Prever, Italy (by descent)
{Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, c. February 1998}
(Sotheby's, London, October 16, 2015, sale L15025, lot 148)
Ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)
Dr. Arthur C. Carr, New York City, October 1964 (via Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City)
Bianchini Gallery, New York City, c. 1973
(...)
Ileana and Michael Sonnabend, Paris, by 1986
Antonio Homem (The Sonnabend Collection), 2007 (by descent)
Ed. 877.6/10 (LC 172)
Irving Beck, Long Beach, N.Y., December 1964 (via Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City)
(...)
Private collection, Switzerland
(Christie's, New York, May 4, 1994, sale 7874, lot 179)
Owner unknown
Ed. 877.7/10 (LC 173)
Irving Beck, Long Beach, N.Y., December 1964 (via Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City)
(...)
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, by 1975
(Christie's, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, June 29, 1977, sale ABIGAIL, lot 170)
Private collection, Europe
(Sotheby's, New York, May 15, 2014, sale N09142, lot 146)
Ed. 877.8/10 (LC 174)
Collection Leo Castelli, New York City, c. 1964 (artist sale)
Mrs. Leo Farland, New York, December 1966
Jerome H. Meyer, Miami Beach, 2003 (via Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City; via Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago)
Ed. 877.9/10
Collection Leo Castelli, New York City, 1964 (artist gift)
Bianchini Gallery, New York City
(...)
Galerie Christian Fayt, Knokke Heist, Belgium, November 1988 (via Galerie Gerry Sattler, Munich; via Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany)
(Francis Briest, Paris, Drouot Montaigne, March 23, 1989, Art Abstrait et Contemporain, lot 70)
Ed. 877.10/10
(...)
Exhibitions
Bianchini Gallery, New York, The American Supermarket, October 6–November 7, 1964 (Bianchini Gallery 1964). Traveled to: Galleria il Segno, Rome, opened March 12, 1965; Galleria l’Elefante, Venice, Italy, May 1–19, 1965.
Park Synagogue, Cleveland, The Fourth Annual Park Synagogue Art Festival, November 15–18, 1964.
State University College, Oneonta, New York, Modern Realism and Surrealism, October 6–27, 1965. Traveled to: East Meadow Public Library, East Meadow, N.Y., November 10–December 1, 1965; Department of Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., January 19–February 9, 1966; Watson Art Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y., February 23–March 16, 1966; Schenectady Museum Association, Schenectady, N.Y., March 30–April 20, 1966; State University College, Brockport, N.Y., May 4–25, 1966; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y., June 8–29, 1966; Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y., July 13–August 3, 1966; Norton Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., August 30–September 30, 1966 (ed. 877.8/10 (LC 174)).
Neue Pinakothek, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher, June 14–August 9, 1968 (not Bern) (Friedrich and Dahlem 1968b, no. 68 b/w ill.). Traveled to: Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, August 24–October 6, 1968 (Friedrich and Dahlem 1968a, no. 68 n.p. b/w ill.); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, March 1–April 14, 1969 (Möller 1969, no. 34 n.p. b/w ill.); Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, April 25–June 8, 1969 (Möller 1969, no. 34 n.p. b/w ill.); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, part 1: July 12, 1969–August 17, 1969; part 2: August 23–September 28, 1969 (abridged). (Kunsthalle Bern 1969).
Documenta, Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie im Auepark, Kassel, Germany, 4. Documenta: Internationale Ausstellung, June 27–October 6, 1968 (Documenta 1968).
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, New-Dada e Pop Art Newyorkesi, April 2–May 4, 1969 (Malle 1969) (ed. 877.4/10).
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, Extended Loan, August 28, 1969–February 28, 1981.
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, Bildnerische Ausdrucksformen, 1960–1970: Sammlung Karl Ströher im Hessischen Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, April 24–June 16, 1970 (Bott and Adriani 1970, n.p. facing p. 224 color ill.).
J. L. Hudson Gallery, Charles W. Warren Store at the Somerset Mall, Troy, Michigan, Food: A Tasteful Selection, February 26–April 15, 1972.
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Roy Lichtenstein, January 2–31, 1973 (ed. 877.1/10).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Roy Lichtenstein, June 19–September 8, 1973 (Beyeler [Galerie] 1973).
New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, American Pop Art and the Culture of the Sixties, January 10–February 21, 1976 (Sundell and Nathanson 1976, front cover color ill.).
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Extended Loan, c.1986–1999, 11286.4 (ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)).
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France, De Klein à Warhol: Face-à-face France/États-Unis: Collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne et du Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice, November 14, 1997–March 16, 1998 (MAMAC 1997) (ed. 877.9/10).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland, Roy Lichtenstein, May 24–September 27, 1998 (Beyeler [Fondation] 1998) (ed. 877.3/10).
Ubu Gallery, New York, The ’60s in the Seventies, May 26–June 27, 1998 (ed. 877.8/10 (LC 174)).
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, Contemporary American Masters: The 1960s, June 13–September 12, 1999 (Schwartz, C. and Perrell 1999) (ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)).
La Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France, Partage d'exotismes in La Biennale de Lyon d'Art Contemporain, June 26–September 24, 2000 (ed. 877.9/10).
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, Le stanze dell'arte: Figure e immagini del XX secolo, December 14, 2002–April 13, 2003 (Belli 2002) (ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)).
Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia, Enigma objekta/Enigme de la Modernité, December 17, 2004–February 20, 2005 (Koščević and Grenier 2004). Traveled to: Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, March 15–May 15, 2005 (Ludwig Múzeum 2005) (ed. 877.9/10).
Tate Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom, If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, An Art Exhibition, May 26–September 23, 2007 (only Bordeaux) (Farquharson 2007). Traveled to: Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC), Bordeaux, France, November 17, 2007–March 9, 2008 (ed. 877.9/10).
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) (ed. 877.9/10).
Museo delle Cultre, Milan, Roy Lichtenstein. Multiple Visions, May 1–September 8, 2019 (Mercurio 2019a). Traveled to: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium, December 5, 2020–April 18, 2021 (as Roy Lichtenstein: Visions Multiples) (Mercurio 2020a, pp. 80–81 color ill. [double spread]) (ed. 877.5/10 (LC 171)).
Literature
Mastroianni, Tony. "Pop Art at Park Synagogue." Cleveland Press, November 14, 1964, b/w ill.
Herzka, Dorothy. Pop Art One. New York: Publishing Institute of American Art, 1965, b/w ill. (ed. 877.6/10 (LC 172)).
Kunsthalle Bern. Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1969. Exhibition catalogue (1968 Munich Neue Pinakothek Haus der Kunst), no. 34 n.p. b/w ill. [not exhibited].
Tuchman, Phyllis. "American Art in Germany: The History of a Phenomenon." Artforum 9, no. 3 (November 1970), p. 63 b/w ill.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, New York, and St. Moritz. Katalog 1975. Zurich, New York, and St. Moritz: Galerie Bischofberger, 1975, p. 61 color ill. (ed. 877.7/10 (LC 173)).
Bouniort, Jeanne. Le pop'art: le pop'art anglais et le pop'art américain. Actualité des arts plastiques 49. Paris: Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique, 1980, title page b/w ill. (upside down), no. 5 color ill. (slide foldout; erroneously captioned as RLCR 773).
Bony, Anne. Les Années 60. Paris: Editions du Regard; Jouy-en-Josas: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 1986. Exhibition catalogue (1986 Jouy-en-Josas Cartier), p. 84 b/w ill. (media erroneously given as oil on canvas), [not exhibited].
Dervaux, Isabelle. Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz in association with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 New York Morgan), fig. 68 p. 164 color ill. [not exhibited].
Dervaux, Isabelle. Roy Lichtenstein: Black & White, 1961–1968. Translated from the English by Andrea Bargenda, Barbara Holle, Marion Kagerer, Christian Quatmann, and Heike Reissig. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz in association with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2011. Exhibition catalogue (2010 New York Morgan), fig. 68 p. 168 color ill. [not exhibited].
Morel, Francis, ed. Connaissance des arts. Special issue, Roy Lichtenstein, no. 589 (July–August 2013), p. 50 color ill. (ed. 9/10?) (ed. 877.9/10).

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