Lot #1024: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - GRRRRRRRRRRR!! - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "GRRRRRRRRRRR!! [subway poster]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1993.
Dimensions: Overall size: 22 x 21 in. (559 x 533 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 extremely small. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Good to very good condition; some vertical creasing in the image, undoubtedly when it was removed from the subway mounting; no holes, tears, stains, foxing. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten.
Comment(s): A very rare poster and a very famous image. We could not locate any sales of this poster since its printing and we could locate only four auction sales of the associated museum poster since its printing, the highest sales result for the museum poster, according to Gordon's Art Reference, being €4,287 ($5,552) at Millon & Associes, Paris, March 20th, 2013, lot #241. Created as a subway advertisement for use in advertising the Lichtenstein exhibition at the Guggenheim and not for distribution or sale to the public. Highly ephemeral. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [28633-5-800-NA]