Category
Print-Multiple
Medium
Aquatint
Type of Artwork
Multiple (31/42)
Certificate issued by
Gallery
Signature
Hand signed
Size of the artwork
48 x 35.5 cm(18.9 x 13.98 in)
Condition
excellent
Publisher
Les Editions Du Solstice Paris, Including original paper folder
Catalogue raisonné reference
Mary Lee Corlett: “The prints of Roy Lichtenstein” (Catalogue Raisonne) Number 267
Artwork description

From: La Nouvelle Chute de ’America. Original Etching with Aquatint, 1992, on Japan Nacre  paper, Signed and dated ‘92, by the artist, in pencil lower right. Sold with this is the paper portfolio cover imprinted “Suite sur Japan Nacre”. This is framed beneath the piece to keep the two items together proving provenance from the portfolio. Edition: The unbound book edition was 80 and 45 hors commerce in Roman numerals)

Published by: Les Editions Du Solstice Paris, Including original paper folder. Printed by: Atelier Dupont-Visat, l'Inéditeur, Paris 

Note: This is from a suit of 10 Etchings with Aquatint. The piece Illustrates Ginsberg’s poem “Northwest Passage”, which details the harrowing consequences of local pollution and industrial reach. To this day, the Northwest Passage represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. 

Public Collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art. National Gallery of Art - Landover, MD 20785


Roy LICHTENSTEIN
(1923-1997)

Illustration for “Passage du Nord-Ouest”(1992)

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