Description

This is a rare Hand Signed Print, by  Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Brushstroke Still Life with Apple". Color offset lithograph poster. 1983. Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed small. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Good to very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Doering/Von der Osten 38. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, New York City (Manhattan), part of an extensive collection of Lichtenstein posters formed over a 20 year period. 

An uncommon poster. Only six auction records in the past 25 years located. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Overall size: 24 7/8 x 29 1/2 in. (632 x 749 mm). Image size: 20 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (518 x 616 mm). [26914] |800| {R100

• Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
• Title: "Brushstroke Still Life with Apple"
• Medium: Lithograph
• Year: 1983
• Edition: Unknown - Presumed not large
• Size: 24 7/8 x 29 1/2 Image: 20 3/8 x 24 1/4in.
• Signature: Hand signed by the artist
• Authenticity - Letter from Auctioneer attesting Authenticity

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.