Moonscape. 1965.
Silkscreen in colors on Rowlux.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 200 copies. 50.6 x 60.8 cm (19.9 x 23.9 in), the full sheet.
[From the portfolio “11 Pop Artists I”, published by Original Editions, New York. Printed by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc. New York. [KT]

The Bar Code of Life - The Hans Braun Collection
More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

• Commissioned by Philip Morris to accompany the “Pop and Op” exhibition, shown at major American museums between 1965 and 1967.
• The glossy look is a reference to the 1969 moon landing and the fascination with space travel shortly before the peak of the Space Age.
• Other copies are in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1993).
Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg (acquired in 2020, Ketterer Kunst).

LITERATURE: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Andrea Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, online catalogue raisonné no. RLCR 1111 (with ill., different copy).
Mary Lee Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997, New York 2002, no. 37 (with ill., different copy).
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Paul Bianchini, Roy Lichtenstein: Drawings and Prints, New York 1971, no. 9.
The Graphic Art of Roy Lichtenstein, exhib. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge/Mass. 1975, no. 14.

In very good condition.