Roy Lichtenstein
Bicentennial Print, 1975
Catalogue Raisonné: Corlett 136, RLCR 2425
From the America: The Third Century Portfolio
7 color lithograph and screenprint in red, blue, yellow, green, gray, olive and black on white wove paper
numbered "HC XI/XXV” in pencil lower left recto
signed and dated "rf Lichtenstein ’75” in pencil lower right recto.
Dimensions
paper: 34 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
paper: 30 1/16 x 22 5/16 inches
image: 25 x 18 1/16 inches
paper: 30 1/16 x 22 5/16 inches
frame: 35 x 27 3/4 inches
Edition Size
Edition of 200 + 25 AP's, 25 HC's: numbered in Roman Numerals; this impression "HC XI/XXV”.
Printer/Publisher
printed by Styria Studio, New York, with their blindstamp lower right
published by APC Editions, division of Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, Inc., New York
Provenance
Personal collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Sotheby's Paris, February 18, 2021, Lot 414.
Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, America: The Third Century, September 7 – November 8, 1975, another impression exhibited.
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, The World of Roy Lichtenstein's Prints, September 18 – November 7, 2004, another impression exhibited.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, Post-War American Art: The Novak/O'Doherty Collection, September 8, 2010 – February 27, 2011, another impression exhibited.
Literature
Corlett, Mary Lee, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948-1997, Hudson Hills, New York, 2002, number 136, another impression reproduced in color, page 140.
Kennedy, Christina, Post-War American Art: The Novak/O'Doherty Collection, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, page 110, another impression illustrated in color.
Thiel, Andrea, Bicentennial, 1975, RLCR 2425, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, another impression reproduced online.
Condition
Museum quality condition, the colors fresh and bright, the margins full. Stored archival for decades before it was framed in archival white wood frame with white mat and UV plexiglass created by PSG Frames, Boston. The impression has NEVER been hung and remains in storage.
Collected by 11 Major Museums
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Indianapolis Museum of The Arts, Indianapolis, IN
Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Public Art University of Houston System, Houston, TX
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Auction Results
A faded impression of Roy Lichtenstein Bicentennial Print realized $38,000 at Phillips London, January 19, 2023.
America: The Third Century Portfolio
The Complete Portfolio, published in 1976, contains 13 original limited edition prints by these Artists:
- William Bailey
- James Brooks
- Christo
- Allan D'Arcangelo
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Costantino Nivola
- Robert Andrew Parker
- Robert Rauschenberg
- James Rosenquist
- Edward Ruscha
- Raymond Saunders
- Ben Schonzeit
- Velox Ward
Proceeds from the sale of the Portfolio were donated to Change, Inc., and other charitable organizations selected by each of the artists. Roy Lichtenstein designated Change, Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union as recipients. A poster version of Roy Lichtenstein Bicentennial Print was also published in a screenprint edition.
About Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
Before establishing Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. in 1991, Joseph K. Levene was President/Chief Operating Officer, Petersburg Press, Inc., the International publisher of limited editions by David Hockney, James Rosenquist, Howard Hodgkin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Frank Stella and Jasper Johns, including these iconic gems: 0-9 (ULAE 155), 1975, 0-9, Set of 10 Numbers (ULAE 156-165), 1975, Corpse and Mirror (ULAE 167), 1976, Target With Four Faces (ULAE 203), 1979, Target with Plaster Casts (ULAE 208), 1979-80.
In 2018 Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. loaned multiple Andy Warhol works to Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, the Andy Warhol retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which subsequently traveled in 2019 to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in 2020 to the Art Institute of Chicago. Most recently Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. loaned three George Condo paintings to the George Condo Retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris from October 10, 2026 to February 15, 2026. Organized in collaboration with George Condo, this was the most significant museum exhibition of George Condo’s work. Presented thematically, the 200 work retrospective included 80 paintings, 110 drawings and 20 sculptures.
