Lot #1373: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Statue of Liberty - Original offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Statue of Liberty".
Medium: Original offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1970.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (267 x 267 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Thin light cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. Comment(s): A rare poster, very rare signed. No auction records located. For the exhibition "Roy Lichtenstein: Graphics, Reliefs & Sculpture 1969-1970" at the Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, October 27 to December 6, 1970. This exhibition commemorated the opening of the permanent Art Gallery at the UCI and included Lichtenstein's interpretations of Monet's serial Haystack and Cathedral images. It also included images that draw somewhat from the 1930's style "heads" by artists such as Alexi Jawlensky, of which Lichtenstein's 'Statue of Liberty' is one. Image © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [28799-2-1600]