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 & Jeanne-Claude, Sotheby's Paris, February 18, 2021, Lot 414.
Exhibitions
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, America: The Third Century, September 7 – November 8, 1975.
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, The World of Roy Lichtenstein's Prints, September 18 – November 7, 2004.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, Post-War American Art: The Novak/O'Doherty Collection, September 8, 2010 – February 27, 2011.
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, meaning it is not faded or compromised.
Stored archival for decades before it was framed by Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
In archival white wood frame with white mat & UV plexiglass created by PSG Frames, Boston.
This impression has never been hung on a wall and remains in storage.
Collected by 11 Prestigious 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.
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