The King
c. 1950
Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph, aquatint, salt-ground (?), and engraving in black on machine-made parchment paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 38.9 x 30 cm (15 5/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
sheet: 50.6 x 35.7 cm (19 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1996.56.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 12
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Copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, New York; acquired 1996 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1994-1995, no. 3.
Bibliography
2002
Corlett, Mary Lee, and Ruth E. Fine. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. New York and Washington, D.C.: Hudson Hills Press and the National Gallery of Art, 2002, no. 12.
Inscriptions
lower center o lower right in graphite: rf Lichtenstein signed 1979
Watermarks
blind stamp upper left: (C)LASSIC
Wikidata ID
Q75119200