Lot #1520: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Against Apartheid - Color offset lithograph poster

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Against Apartheid".
Medium: Color offset lithograph poster.
Date: Composed 1983.
Dimensions: Overall size: 33 3/8 x 23 1/2 in. (848 x 597 mm). Image size: 30 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (775 x 597 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition of c5,000. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.32; Doering/Von der Osten 39. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, New York City (Manhattan), part of an extensive collection of Lichtenstein posters formed over a 20 year period. Comment(s): This poster has sold as high as $3,840 (including premium), at Christie's New York, September 26th, 2006, lot #413. Our example a lifetime impression. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [26918-5-400]