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Roy Lichtenstein

The Heavier-than-Air Machine, 1953

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Medium

color woodcut on Japanese paper

Dimensions

image: 31.4 x 38.3 cm (12 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.)

sheet: 42.6 x 52.4 cm (16 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein

Catalogue Raisonné

Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 23B

Accession Number

1996.56.22

Artists / Makers

Roy Lichtenstein (artist) American, 1923 - 1997

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Copyright

© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Inscription

across bottom of image in graphite: The Heavier than Air Machine 1953 signed '79 rf Lichtenstein state proof

Provenance

the artist, New York; acquired 1996 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Lichtenstein, Roy

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. 23B.

2020: Finch, Elizabeth, Marshall N. Price, Scott Manning Stevens, Ruth Fine, Graham Bader. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1060. New ork: Rizzoli Electra, 2020, p. 135 (illustrated).

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