Description

This is a rare Hand Signed Print, by Roy Lichtenstein.

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Portrait (Jobs…Not Cheese! - Moffett for Senator)". Color offset lithograph poster. 1982. Signed in pen, lower right. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Cf. Doering/Von der Osten 32. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Overall size: 33 x 23 1/2 in. (838 x 597 mm). Image size: 30 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (765 x 514 mm). [27407] |1200| {R100  

• Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
• Title: "Jobs Not Cheese"
• Medium: Offset Lithograph
• Year: 1982
• Edition: Unknown - thought to be low
• Size: 33 x 23 1/2 Image: 30 1/8 x20 1/4
• 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.