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This is a very Rare Hand Signed Offset Exhibition Announcement, by Roy Lichtenstein.

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Ferus Gallery Sock Annoucement". Original offset lithograph poster. 1963. Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, believed to have been in the region of 2,500. A very few were autographed by Lichtenstein. Very Rare Hand-signed announcement for Lichtenstein’s first exhibition at the Ferus Gallery, California on April 1st 1963. We have found only 3 instances of signed copies such as ours, being offered at auction in the past 25 years. Corlett States: Sock Announcement - “Some announcements have been autographed by the artist in pencil, lower right or lower left". Offset lithograph in blue and black on white wove paper, 13.06 ? 9.94 in. (33.17 x 25.25 cm.) Signed lower right Print/Casting Year 1963 Foundry/Publisher Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles.

• Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
• Title: "Sock Announcement"
• Medium: Offset Litho
• Year: 1963
• Edition: Unknown- Believed 2,500
• Size: Overall - 13.06 ? 9.94 in. (33.17 x 25.25 cm.)
• Signature: Hand signed by the artist
• 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

This is a very Rare Hand Signed Offset Exhibition Announcement, by Roy Lichtenstein.

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "Ferus Gallery Sock Annoucement". Original offset lithograph poster. 1963. Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, believed to have been in the region of 2,500. A very few were autographed by Lichtenstein. Very Rare Hand-signed announcement for Lichtenstein’s first exhibition at the Ferus Gallery, California on April 1st 1963. We have found only 3 instances of signed copies such as ours, being offered at auction in the past 25 years. Corlett States: Sock Announcement - “Some announcements have been autographed by the artist in pencil, lower right or lower left". Offset lithograph in blue and black on white wove paper, 13.06 ? 9.94 in. (33.17 x 25.25 cm.) Signed lower right Print/Casting Year 1963 Foundry/Publisher Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles.

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein

Title: "Sock Announcement"

Medium: Offset Litho

Year: 1963

Edition: Unknown- Believed 2,500

Size: Overall - 13.06 ? 9.94 in. (33.17 x 25.25 cm.)

Signature: Hand signed by the artist

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