Description

This is a very rare Hand Signed Silkscreen Poster, by  Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997). "I Can See the Whole Room!...And There's Nobody in It!". Original Colour silkscreeen. 1989. Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed very small. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Condition: overall good; would be very good to fine save for creasing in the margin lower left and two small dimples slightly into the image, lower left. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Doering/Von der Osten. An extremely rare object, especially when signed. Only four auction sales located in the past 28 years. The image was never an editioned print and apparently this poster is the only object with this image that was printed in Lichtenstein's lifetime. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Overall size: 42 x 38 3/4 in. (1067 x 984 mm). Image size: 37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. (952 x 952 mm).

• Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
• Title: "I can see the whole room!...And there's Nobody in it"
• Medium: Colour Silkscreen
• Year: 1989
• Edition: Unknown, presumed very small
• Size: 42 ins x 38 3/4 ins
• Signature: Hand signed by the artist
• 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