Lot #1038: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - I Can See the Whole Room!...And There's Nobody in It! - Color silkscreeen

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "I Can See the Whole Room!...And There's Nobody in It!".
Medium: Color silkscreeen.
Date: Composed 1989.
Dimensions: Overall size: 42 x 38 3/4 in. (1067 x 984 mm). Image size: 37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. (952 x 952 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Condition: overall good; a few handling marks visible in the black area of the image, else fine. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. Comment(s): A scarce object. According to 'Gordon's Art Reference' the auction record (for another impression) is $6,873 (€5,154) at PIASA, Paris, March 25, 2007, lot #292. Only four auction sales located in the past 28 years. The image was never an editioned print and apparently this poster is the only object with this image that was printed in Lichtenstein's lifetime. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [28201-8-2400]