Finger Pointing
30 1/16 x 22 5/16inchesFinger Pointing
(Corlett 126), 1975
paper: 11 15/16 x 8 15/16 inches
frame: 13 1/2 x 10 inches
edition of 300
Numbered in pencil on verso lower right
Stamped in black verso: "© Copyright 1973 By Roy Lichtenstein" lower left
Stamped on verso "Printed At Styria Studio"
Printed by Styria Studio
Published by Experiments in Art and Technology
Floated in archival welded aluminum frame with UV plexiglass
Literature
M. Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948-1993, New York, 1994, no. 126 another impression reproduced in color, pg 132.
Beginning in January 1971, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) undertook a large fundraising effort to raise money for E.A.T. and support the artists by assembling a major collection of works by artists active in New York in the 1960's, raise funds to buy itand donate the full collection to a museum.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN FINGER POINTING
Beginning in January 1971, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) undertook a large fundraising effort to raise money for E.A.T. and support the artists by assembling a major collection of works by artists active in New York in the 1960's, raise funds to buy itand donate the full collection to a museum.
E.A.T. approached Pontus Hulten, director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, to choose the collection, because of his long-time interest in and support of American art and artists at the museum. After meeting and becoming friendly with Pontus Hulten, Lichtenstein donated Drawing for Finger Pointing, 1964, ink on paper to the Moderna Musseet in 1977.
original drawing for the poster to the exhibition "American Pop Art" Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The artists in the collection were chosen by Hulten in consultation with Klüver and other museum people, dealersand art historians Hulten knew in New York. The collection represents a wide range of media, from painting (Ellsworth Kelly, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Andy Warhol) and sculpture (Dan Flavin, John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Oyvind Fahlström, Robert Breer, Hans Haacke, Mark di Suvero) to new media (Robert Whitman, Nam Jun Paik, Walter De Maria) and installation (George Segal, Jim Dine, Larry Rivers) and evolved into a preeminent collection of American art from the 1960's.
An exhibition of works of art from the New York Collection For Stockholm opened at Moderna Museet in October 1973.The collection of painting and sculpture represents a broad overview of artistic activity in New York in the 1960's. It included artists working in many genres and styles prevalent during that period: It embodied the range of new work of the early and middle 1960's: geometric abstraction, Pop Art’s depiction of everyday materials and themes from the mass media, the use of industrial fabrication by Minimal artists, incorporation of new technologyand the reintroduction of politics into art as reaction to the Vietnam War.
Visit The Fine Art Blog, the official blog of Joseph K. Levene Fine Arrt, Ltd. to learn more about Fake Roy Lichtenstein Finger Pointing Printer's Proof prints from non-existent Printer's Proof edition of 10 that fooled specialists at the major aucton houses. The authorized published edition of Printer's Proofs is actually 9, not 10!
