Lot 124001401 
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124001401
Roy Lichtenstein
Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 66,000 - 88,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Sweet Dreams Baby!. 1965.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 200 copies. On firm wove paper. 90.7 x 64.9 cm (35.7 x 25.5 in). Sheet: 95,6 x 69,7 cm (37,6 x 27,4 in).
From the portfolio "11 Pop Artists", vol. III. Printd by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York. Published by Original Editions, New York. [EH].
• One of the earliest documents of Lichtenstein's characteristic style that imitates the pictorial language of comic books.
• In 1965, American and British artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jim Dine, each contributed three prints to the three volumes of the portfolio “11 Pop Artists”.
• The works in the portfolios were shown at various locations in the United States between 1965 and 1967 as part of the “Pop and Op” exhibition.
LITERATURE: Mary Lee Corlett, The prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A catalogue raisonné 1948-1997, New York 1994, no. 39 (illustrated.).
Leo Castelli, quoted from: Kunstforum international vol.137, 1997,H.-N. Jocks, in conversation with the art dealer, discoverer of Pop Art and king of the art world, Leo Castelli, pp. 663ff.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 200 copies. On firm wove paper. 90.7 x 64.9 cm (35.7 x 25.5 in). Sheet: 95,6 x 69,7 cm (37,6 x 27,4 in).
From the portfolio "11 Pop Artists", vol. III. Printd by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York. Published by Original Editions, New York. [EH].
• One of the earliest documents of Lichtenstein's characteristic style that imitates the pictorial language of comic books.
• In 1965, American and British artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jim Dine, each contributed three prints to the three volumes of the portfolio “11 Pop Artists”.
• The works in the portfolios were shown at various locations in the United States between 1965 and 1967 as part of the “Pop and Op” exhibition.
LITERATURE: Mary Lee Corlett, The prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A catalogue raisonné 1948-1997, New York 1994, no. 39 (illustrated.).
Leo Castelli, quoted from: Kunstforum international vol.137, 1997,H.-N. Jocks, in conversation with the art dealer, discoverer of Pop Art and king of the art world, Leo Castelli, pp. 663ff.
124001401
Roy Lichtenstein
Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 66,000 - 88,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
