Lot #1412: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - The Red Horseman - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "The Red Horseman [Castelli]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1975.
Dimensions: Overall size: 22 3/8 x 27 7/8 in. (568 x 708 mm). Image size: 20 x 26 3/4 in. (508 x 679 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $800
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,200/1,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed not large. White wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Overall condition good to very good. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Doering/Von der Osten 29. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, Venice, California.
Comment(s): A signed impression, as ours, of this iconic poster has sold for as much as $8,963 (€5,672) [PIASA, Paris, 03/30/2008]. Published for the Lichtenstein exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, November 1-22, 1975. The image was also used for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [26571-5-800-NA]