Cover for "Polemic" Magazine
1959
Roy Lichtenstein
Artist, American, 1923 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut in red and black on heavy, white wove wraparound paper cover, over separately-bound journal
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.2 x 53 cm (9 15/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
sheet (wraparound cover with 3" flaps, each end): 25.2 x 17.2 x 1.3 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
overall (closed book): 25.2 x 17.2 x 1.3 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 x 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1996.56.143
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Catalogue Raisonné
Corlett/Fine 2002, no. III.2
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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. 14.
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. III.2.
Inscriptions
printed in red on cover: POLEMIC
Wikidata ID
Q75122537