This is a very rare L/E Hand-signed silkscreen, by Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Brushstroke" L/E A/P Silkscreen
Signed in pencil, lower right; annotated lower left. A proof aside from the regular edition of 280, at least 15 HC, & an unknown number of AP. The full sheet. Fine impression with fresh colours. Thick, heavy, smooth, white wove paper, used for a few of the proofs pulled for this printing. Very fresh, fine condition, hardly any evidence of aging, never hinged nor framed, stored flat. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett II.5; Doering/Von der Osten 10; Bianchini (1971), cat. no. 14. Perhaps Lichtenstein's most famous image. Pictured on the cover of the Corlett 2002 catalogue raisonne. For the exhibition November 25 to December 16, 1965. Published by the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Printed by Chiron Press, New York, with the collaboration of Stephen Poleskie. Lichtenstein created a total of seven prints for his three solo Castelli exhibitions from 1963 to 1965. Only two of the seven motifs ('Crak!' and 'Brushstroke') were printed in the usual manner as posters with the text announcing the exhibition on the front. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [28951-6-4000]
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Roy Lichtenstein born 1923 [- 1997]
American Pop artist; painter, lithographer and sculptor. Born in New York. Studied at the Art Students League 1939, and at Ohio State College 1940-3. War service 1943-6. Returned to Ohio State College 1946-9, and taught there until 1951. First one-man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York, 1951. Lived in Cleveland, Ohio 1951-7, painting and making a living at various odd jobs. Instructor at New York State University, Oswego, New York 1957-60, and at Rutgers University 1960-3. Painted in a non-figurative and Abstract Expressionist style 1957-61, but began latterly to incorporate loosely handled cartoon images, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc., in his paintings. Made a breakthrough into his characteristic work in 1961; painted pictures based on comic strip images, advertising imagery and overt adaptations of works of art by others, followed by classical ruins, paintings of canvas backs or stretchers, etc. Made land, sea, sky and moonscapes in 1964, sometimes in relief and incorporating plastics and enamelled metal. His later work includes some sculptures, mostly in polished brass, based on Art-Deco forms of the 1930s, etc. Lives in New York.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art
other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet,
London 1981, p.436