Lot #2988: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Stretcher Frame - Original color silkscreen

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Stretcher Frame [Irving Blum Gallery]".
Medium: Original color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1968.
Dimensions: Overall size: 12 5/16 x 9 1/8 in. (313 x 232 mm). Image size: 8 3/16 x 8 in. (208 x 203 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $3,000/4,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed very small. Light cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Overall condition good to very good; unobtrusive centerfold as issued (for mailing?); some marginal creasing in right margin; a few light spots verso, not visible recto. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, Venice, California.
Comment(s): This very rare and virtually unobtainable poster was issued for the Lichtenstein exhibition which opened at the storied Irving Blum (formerly Ferus) Gallery in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1968. This poster is not in any of the standard catalogues raisonnes of Lichtenstein's work. Although the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian has a total of 32 different Irving Blum and Ferus Gallery posters, it does not possess this poster. We were unable to locate any auction records of this poster in the past 25 years. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [26556-2-2400-NA]