ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

CRAK!

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
CRAK!
offset lithograph in colors, on lightweight wove paper, 1963-1964, signed in pencil, from the edition of unknown size with the small typesetting 'Leo Castelli Gallery • Lithographed by Total Color, New York' at the lower right, without the exhibition text in the lower margin, published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, with full margins, in generally good condition, framed
Image: 18 5⁄8 x 27 in. (473 x 686 mm.)
Sheet: 19 7⁄8 x 28 ½ in. (505 x 724 mm.)

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Henry Steinberg, Cleveland, Ohio, 1966
By descent from the above to the present owner

Literature

Corlett II.2.b

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Lot Essay

Henry Steinberg was an avid collector of Lichtenstein works. He consulted with Mary Lee Corlett for The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein in 1991, the National Gallery of Art, a Catalogue Raisonne, 1948-1993, and is expressly acknowledged in the book. Crak! was published to announce Lichtenstein's exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1963. (Corlett p. 255) Steinberg also consulted on Ernst A. Busche’s Roy Lichtenstein, Das Frühwerk 1942-1960, in which five prints from his collection are illustrated.

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