Morton A. Mort

1980

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

James Reid

Printer, American, born 1948

Christine Fox

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

Geometric shapes outlined with wide black lines are filled with flat areas of color or stripes in this abstract horizontal woodcut. There are roughly three horizontal zones. The upper third is made up of a field of concentric circles made with black wavy lines, almost like wood grain, against a parchment-colored background. A row of jagged triangular shapes stretches the width of the composition across the center. The forms are black, white, or patterned with royal-blue and white stripes. The bottom-most zone is similarly made up of triangular shapes, but most of these are filled with pine green, as is a taller triangle to our left. The artist signed and dated the print in graphite on the paper below the lower right corner of the printed image: “S.P. I rf Lichtenstein ’80.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut with debossing on Arches Cover wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    image: 58.1 x 82.6 cm (22 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 74.6 x 99.3 cm (29 3/8 x 39 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.5.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 178

  • Copyright

    © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1981 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 886.

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, p. 168, no. 178.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 31.74. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: S.P. I rf Lichtenstein '80; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: RL80-944

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: © Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Wikidata ID

Q74035247

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