Aspen Jazz Festival

Artist : Roy Lichtenstein
Medium : Silkscreen
Size unframed : 26"/40"
Size framed : N/A
Signature Info : Hand Signed - By the artist
Frame Info : Not Framed
Condition : Good
Year : 1967
Asking Price:£5,500.00
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This is a rare limited edition Hand Signed Silkscreen Poster, by Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Aspen Jazz Festival” [poster]". Original colour screenprint on heavy, glossy white paper. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery for the Aspen jazz Festival in 1967. Printed by Chiron Press, New York.The project was initiated by John and Kimiko Powers who invited several leading jazz musicians to participate in a weekend called the Aspen Jazz Festival in 1967. Page 82 #44 of "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein" a catalogue raisonne 1948-1993. Measures 40” x 26”, with an image size of 40” x 26”. Good condition.

Rare Limited Edition, one of only 300 signed copies. Provenance – Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

  • Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
  • Title: "Aspen Jazz Festival"
  • Medium: Screenprint
  • Year: 1967
  • Edition: 167/300
  • Size: 40 x 26
  • Signature: Hand signed by the artist

Provenance: Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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