Lot #1214: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Nudes with Beach Ball - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Nudes with Beach Ball".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1994.
Dimensions: Overall size: 32 3/4 x 23 in. (832 x 584 mm). Image size: 25 1/2 x 23 in. (648 x 584 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed small. Smooth, white wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Folds as issued for mailing, else fine. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Doring/Van der Osten 63. Provenance: Private collection, La Canada Flintridge, California. Comment(s): Very scarce. Although the poster was issued over 25 years ago we could locate only two auction records in ‘Gordon’s Art Reference,’ one of the two unsigned, the hammer price of the signed impression at $2,040 at Swann Auction Galleries, September 14, 2006, lot #696. Printed for the exhibition held at Leo Castelli, New York City, November 19th - December 17th, 1994. Design by Smatt Florence, Inc. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [29226-5-1600]