Lot #1755: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Bananas and Grapefruit - Color offset lithograph

   

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Bananas and Grapefruit".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1973.
Dimensions: Overall size: 25 x 32 in. (635 x 813 mm). Image size: 21 x 30 in. (533 x 762 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,000/2,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. Thin coated light cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Good to very good condition; some rippling but no hard creasing; removed from old mount with no loss of paper fibers; no tears, holes, foxing, etc. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, Venice, California.
Comment(s): A lifetime impression and a very scarce/rare poster. No auction records in the past 25 years have been located. Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. It was published for the Lichtenstein solo exhibition at the Greenberg (now Greenberg Van Doren) Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [26558-6-1600-NA]