Lot #1389: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Taittinger Champagne Brut Bottle with box and tag - Screenprint on blue polyester form encasing the glass bottle

                 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Taittinger Champagne Brut Bottle with box and tag [vintage 1985, released 1990]".
Medium: Screenprint on blue polyester form encasing the glass bottle.
Date: Composed 1986.
Lot Note(s): Signed with the initials in red marker, lower left of the bottle; signed in the plate, lower center; signed on the box, twice. Edition of 100,000; few remaining intact. Fine impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.48. Comment(s): Extremely rare when signed by Lichtenstein. No auction records located of a signed example. Unopened. Includes the box and the often missing bottle neck tag. According to Corlett, "Lichtenstein's is the fifth design in the Taittinger Collection series…[He] was approached about doing the design in 1986, and the bottle was introduced on October 16, 1990, in Paris. In America it was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on June 10, 1991. The image is also reproduced, in part, on the side and top of the yellow box that contains the bottle. Lichtenstein's signature is also reproduced on the top of the box and again inside the lid." Dimensions of bottle: 13 1/2in. (height) x 3 3/4in. (diameter of base) [34.3 x 9.5cm]. Dimensions of box: 4in. x 4 1/8in. x 13 7/8 in [10.2 x 10.4 x 35.3cm]. Published by Taittinger, Reims, France. Printed by Quadra, Neuilly, France. Images copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [27036-13-2000]