Roy Lichtenstein Imperfect Print for B.A.M.

Woodcut & screenprint in colours, on Arches wove, 1987

151 × 80cm 59 1/2 × 31 1/2 in

Signed and dated in pencil

Certificate of authenticity

Edition of 75

Published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, from The Brooklyn Academy of Music 125th Anniversary Portfolio,

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Roy Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. Challenging the traditional edge of the canvas, Lichtenstein here starts with a line, follows it along the canvas and then brings it back to the start. As the artist himself said of the print, ‘the line goes out beyond the rectangle of the painting, as though I missed the edge somehow’.