Lot #999: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Girl with Ball - Color silkscreen

         

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Girl with Ball [Palais des Beaux-Arts]".
Medium: Color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1995.
Dimensions: Overall size: 39 12 x 27 1/2 in. (991 x 698 mm). Image size: 36 3/8 x 21 5/8 in. (924 x 549 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Intended edition of 2,500 (of which all were printed?). Heavy, smooth, white wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Doering/Von der Osten 161. Provenance: Private collection, La Canada Flintridge, California. Comment(s): Surprisingly scarce, and rare signed. Another impression of this poster (as ours also signed) sold for $2,672 (EUR 2,356) at Auctionata Inc. (Berlin), 1/28/2015, lot #147. This poster printed for the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Based on the painting "Girl with Ball," 1961. Published by Plaizier, Brussels. Printed by Carto, Brussels. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [25200-6-1200]