Lot #1490: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Whaam! - Original color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Whaam! [1991 - 1 panel - complete composition - lifetime printing]".
Medium: Original color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1991.
Dimensions: Overall size: 27 9/16 x 39 3/8 in. (700 x 1000 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. Light cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression with fresh colors. Good to very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Our example unknown to Corlett and Doering/Von der Osten; thus cf. Corlett App.7; Doering/Von der Osten 22; Bianchini (1971), cat. no.2; Zerner (1975) cat. no. 2. Comment(s): Extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, a previously unrecorded lifetime poster of Lichtenstein's "Whaam!" Although published by the Tate, we have not found an auction record since its printing nor any mention in the literature of this printing. The complete text at the bottom of the sheet reads: "Published by Tate Gallery Publications, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG. Designed by Caroline Johnston. Roy Lichtenstein 'Whaam!' 1963. © Roy Lichtenstein/Dacs, London/Vaga, NY 1991. Acrylic on canvas. 172.7 x 406.6 cm. © Tate Gallery 1991. Printed in Great Britain by Westerham Press, Westerham, Kent. 3MO 191." Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [28641-6-2400]