Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Whaam! [diptych - 2 original prints]".
Medium: Original color offset lithographs.
Date: Composed 1967.
Dimensions: Overall size: (each panel) 25 1/16 x 29 7/16 in. (637 x 748 mm). Image size: (two panels together) 24 9/16 x 57 5/8 in. (624 x 1464 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right, second panel. From an edition without the 4-digit code (probably the 1973 edition of 2,500). Corlett states that there is a 4-digit code on some, but not all, printings. Printed on 200-gram twin-wire Cartridge paper (printings before 1971 were on Huntsman Superwhite Cartridge paper). The full sheets. Fine impressions. Condition: Overall very good. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett App.7; Doering/Von der Osten 22; Bianchini (1971), cat. no.2; Zerner (1975) cat. no. 2. Comment(s): Despite the quantities printed, this is a very scarce set of posters, and rare signed. According to ‘Gordon’s Art Reference’ there have been only 15 sales of the set at ‘brick & mortar’ auction houses since March 2007. Gordon’s lists the auction record for this set at $60,191 (€40,810), Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria, 11/28/2007, lot #123. It sold for $43,536 (€31,720) at Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Germany, 12/7/2013, lot #410. The printer was Lautrec Ltd., Leeds. Published by the Tate Gallery, London. Images copyright © The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [30263-6-8000] |
