Lot #1061: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Interior with Painting of Tintin (Tintin in the New World) - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Interior with Painting of Tintin (Tintin in the New World)".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1993.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 3/16 x 5 7/16 in. (208 x 138 mm). Image size: 6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (156 x 114 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $300
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $400/500
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition of 12,500. Glossy, smooth, white wove paper. The full sheet; untrimmed. Fine impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.17.
Comment(s): Rare when signed. Frontispiece for "Tintin in the New World." Corlett writes: "Lichtenstein created this image specifically for the frontispiece of Frederic Tuten's 'Tintin in the New World' (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993). He also created the cover illustration (see cat. no. III.16)." Printed by Coral Graphics, Plainview, New York. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [24521-1-300-NA]