Cover for "Polemic" Magazine

1959

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in red and black on heavy, white wove wraparound paper cover, over separately-bound journal

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein

  • 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

    1996.56.143

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Corlett/Fine 2002, no. III.2

  • 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

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