Vertical Apple
27 7/8 x 37 3/8 inchesRed and Yellow Apples
(Cortlett 197), 1982-83
color woodcut on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper
paper: 27 7/8 x 37 3/8 inches
edition of 60 plus 14 AP's
printed by Petersburg Press, Inc., London and New York
published by Petersburg Press, Inc., London and New York
Literature
M. Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948-1993, New York, 1994, no. 197 another impression reproduced in color, pg 180.
"Prints and Portfolios Published." Print Collector's Newsletter 13, no. 6 (January–February 1983), p. 218.
Museum collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Lichtenstein began painting brushstroke still lifes with apples in 1980. In 1981 Artforum reproduced his painting Red Apple on its cover, and Study for Yellow Apple and Yellow Apple were reproduced as a feature inside the issue.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN APPLES
Lichtenstein began painting brushstroke still lifes with apples in 1980. In 1981 Artforum reproduced his painting Red Apple on its cover, and Study for Yellow Apple and Yellow Apple were reproduced as a feature inside the issue.
Petersburg Press approached Lichtenstein about doing a wood-cut project usins the traditional Japanese method of printing with watercolor-based inks on Japanese paper. Colors are applied to the blocks with brushes and printed several times to get the desired intensity. Printing is done by hand, not through a press. Lichtenstein has characterized these works as "quiet and elegant"
The project was begun in 1982. The collage images were photographically transferred to the blocks and then hand-cut by the artist. The printing was done in two cities: Michale Berdan, who had lived and trained in Japan, was then working in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi, master printer from Japan was in Philadelphia, where he shared the proofing and edition printing with Diane Hunt.
