Roy LICHTENSTEIN - The Oval Office, 1992 - Highly collectible set (Silkscreen on metallic pin & Silkscreen on paper)
The Oval Office, 1992
Highly collectible set including :
1. One mixed media silkscreen, printed on a metallic campaign button.
Out of an edition of 5 000 & signed on the plate on the bottom right corner.
2. One original silkscreen, printed on glazed paper.
Final page proof by the printer, approved and signed by Roy Lichtenstein before the serial printing of the campaign buttons.
Hand-signed lower right margin, and signed on the plate on each image.
Dimensions:
+ Size of the sheet: 28 x 21,5 cm / 11 x 8,4 in.
+ Size of the images on the sheet: 6 x 8,5 cm / 2,3 x 3,3 in.
+ Size of the pin: 4,5 x 7 cm / 1,7 x 2,7 in.
Condition: The sheet is in very good condition, with some soft handling creases at the edges, and one light fold on the top left corner. Images very clean otherwise, with bright and vivid colors. The pin is in very good condition as well.
Both artworks are designed after the original 1992 Roy Lichtenstein's large silkscreen. This particular screenprint was specially created to raise funds for the Bill Clinton & Al Gore's political campaign.
Roy Lichtenstein designed "The Oval Office" within the setting of the Artists for Freedom project, a gathering of 16 contemporary artists (with Joan Mitchell, Cindy Sherman, or else Jim Dine) creating political artworks for the Democratic National Committee.
Dimensions :
- Height : 28 cm
- Width : 21,5 cm
Screen print :
Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works.
In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Roy Lichtenstein :
Born in New York in 1923, he is one of the most important artists of The American Pop Art movement, finding inspiration in advertising, popular imagery and comic strips. Woman with Flowered Hat has held the record for highest Lichtenstein auction price in May 15, 2013 (sold for $56.1 million, including fees, at Christie's). Approximatly 4500 of his works are exhibited around the world. The artist died in 1997.
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