Roy Lichtenstein

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, October 1994 - January 1995 (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop, On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, May - August 2003, p. 8, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Pullman, Washington, Washington State University Museum of Art;  Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Eugene, Oregon, Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art; Las Vegas Art Museum; Palm Springs Museum of Art; Evanston, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Billings, Yellowstone Art Museum; Austin Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Prints 1956-97, From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, February 2006 - February 2008 (another example exhibited)
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Ponce en Plaza Las Americas, May - August 2008 (another example exhibited)
New York, Woodward Gallery, Big Paper Winter, January - February 2010 (another example exhibited)
Milan, Triennale di Milan, Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art, January - May 2010 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Ludwig Museum, Roy Lichtenstein: Kunst als Motiv, July - October 2010 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Galerie Klaus Benden, Accrochage, June - September 2012 (another example exhibited)

Elaine Louie, "Sometimes the Art on the Wall Happens to be the Wallpaper," The New York Times, May 28, 1992, illustrated, p. C10 (detail)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, 1999, cat. no. 33, pp. 94-95, illustrated in color
Ruth Altchek, "News From Around the World: Paper Trail," Art on Paper, December 2000, p. 24
Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Gift to the Nation, Washington, D.C.,  2001, p. 151
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and traveling, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, October 2001 – October 2002, p.192, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. Each sheet is mounted to an acetate sheet on the reverse. The 5 panels have never been installed nor trimmed down from the original print. There are a few minor tears, faint accretions, and some scattered soft creases along the exterior borders that are cut off when installed and do not affect the printed image. There are 6 registration-holes along the edge of each sheets’ borders, due to the publisher’s working method. The fourth panel (bearing the signature and blind stamp) has a semi-circle cut-out along the bottom edge, inherent to the printing process, which will also be cut off upon installation. There are some minor inherent irregularities due to the printing process. Each unframed.
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