Roy LichtensteinGirl - 1 Cent Life. 1963/64.
- Ref: 644925/19687
SOLD
Original lithograph in colours. 1963-64. Drawn for the album 'One Cent Life' (see below). From the regular edition of 2000, all of which were issued unsigned as here. (There was a separate deluxe edition of 60, plus 40 proofs but this image was also unsigned in that edition). Hand-drawn by Lichtenstein on zinc plates in New York; the edition printed at the Atelier Maurice Beaudet, Paris 1963. Album published by Kornfeld, Bern 1964.
Reference: Corlett – The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein no 33.
Superb fresh impression with brilliant fresh colours. On pale cream wove paper, worked to the sheet size at the edges (the Ting poem at the foot of the sheet). Image: 320 x 270mm. Sheet: 410 x 292mm.
The 'One Cent Life' album consists of irreverent poems by the Chinese-American poet Walasse Ting, accompanied by hand-drawn colour lithographs by leading avant-garde artists of the New York and European 1960’s who were inspired by his poetry. (The text of the poem for this Lichtenstein appears on the sheet below the image, as for all the prints, but is masked by the mount).
Ting approached a very wide group of leading artists, ranging from Jim Dine, Sam Francis and Andy Warhol as well as Lichtenstein, to Europeans such as Alechinsky and Appel.
In his diaries Ting described how he carried the zinc plates to the artists in their studios. In the case of Lichtenstein he wrote: 'We drink and laugh. Lichtenstein spent two weeks, each hour one dot....’
‘Girl’ is a superb example of the earliest period of Lichtenstein’s ‘comic-strip’ art.
(Note: With the lithograph by Sonderborg on the reverse as issued)
