Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) - CRAK!

1963-64, pencil signed, from the edition of unknown size, with the small typesetting 'Leo Castelli Gallery • Lithographed by Total Color, New York,' with full margins, Leo Castelli, New York, publisher. Offset lithograph in colors on lightweight wove paper.
image: 18 5/8 x 27 in. (47.3 x 68.6cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 x 28 3/8 in. (50.5 x 72.1cm)
[Corlett, II.2b]

Provenance

Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
Collection of Jordan and Cynthia Katz, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from the above).
The Estate of Jordan and Cynthia Katz, Pennsylvania.

Literature

Paul Bianchi, Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, New York, 1970, cat. no. 5, p. 217, (another of the edition illustrated).

Henri Zerner, The Graphic Art of Roy Lichtenstein: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1975, exh. cat., cat. no. 7 (another of the edition illustrated).

Michael Lobel, Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 92-95, 98, fig. 55 (another of the edition illustrated).