Salon.com > Paiting http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:36:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Missing Lichtenstein painting found 42 years later http://www.salon.com/2012/10/16/missing_lichtenstein_painting_found_42_years_later/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/16/missing_lichtenstein_painting_found_42_years_later/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:54:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13042589 Hyperallergic Famed Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s “Electric Cord” may have been painted in 1961 but no one who wasn’t alive in the 1960s has ever seen it. Why? Because in January 1970, when art dealer Leo Castelli sent it to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer for cleaning, it mysteriously disappeared.

"Electric Cord"

Fast forward to December 2006, when the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the artist’s legacy, published an image of the black and white work on the front of its holiday card and appealed to its community for help locate the work. It kind of worked.

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