Lot #2182: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Tintin Reading I (a) - Color offset lithograph

   

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Tintin Reading I (a) [from: Tintin in the New World]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1993.
Dimensions: Image size: 8 9/16 x 5 1/4 in. (217 x 133 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, upper left. Edition of 12,500. Paper: 80# Simpson over board. The full sheet; untrimmed. Fine impression. Very good condition, on board as issued. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.16. Comment(s): Cover illustration for "Tintin in the New World." The image depicts Tintin reading a newspaper with Snowy at his feet. Corlett writes: "Lichtenstein created this image specifically for use on the cover of Frederic Tuten's "Tintin in the New World" (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.,1993). The cover is protected by a transparent plastic book-jacket overlay, on which the title of the book and the author's name are printed. A Lichtenstein drawing, 'Interior with Painting of Tintin,' (1992), also designed specifically for use in the book, appears as the frontispiece (see cat. no. III.17)." Printed by Coral Graphics, Plainview, New York. Rare when signed. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [24520-2-400]