Lot #1767: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Imperfect Drawing for Catalogue Cover II - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Imperfect Drawing for Catalogue Cover II".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1987.
Dimensions: Image size: 9 7/16 x 21 1/4 in. (240 x 540 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in orange crayon, lower right. Edition of 4,000. Heavy white wove paper. The full sheet; untrimmed. Fine impression. Condition: folds as issued; slight wear on corners, else good to very good. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.14. Comment(s): Book-Jacket illustration for "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein." Corlett writes: "This image was designed by Lichtenstein for use on the cover of the paperback edition of 'The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein,’ by Bernice Rose, catalogue by Elizabeth Richebourg Rea (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, March 15 - June 2, 1987. Lichtenstein designed a second Imperfect illustration for the cloth edition (see cat. no. III.13)." Printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press, Meriden, Connecticut. Rare when signed. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [24518-4-300]