PRODUCT DESCRIPTION :

Official London Tate Gallery authorized offset lithograph two panel artwork of Whaam.

Taken from the original artwork by Roy Lichtenstein which he produced in 1963 this 2 panel ( Diptych ) set was printed under licence from the Tate Gallery circa 1982 /83 by British fine art printers lautrec Photo Litho Ltd.

The panels production code 3M682 denotes that these panels were produced as a limited historical run capped at 3000 sets.

The Panels are still showing great colour and depth with only minor edge staining and very light creasing.

These are going to look fantastic framed and on display.

SIZE : 800mm high x 600mm wide per print

CONDITION :

Some very minor creasing in places, please see images, showing great colour. Very good for age.

SHIPPING : Rolled in a tube, worldwide available.

SOME MORE INFO:

Whaam! 1963 is a large, two-canvas painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that takes its composition from a comic book strip. The left-hand canvas features an American fighter plane firing a missile into the right-hand canvas and hitting an approaching enemy plane; above the American plane, the words of the pilot appear in a yellow bubble: ‘I PRESSED THE FIRE CONTROL… AND AHEAD OF ME ROCKETS BLAZED THROUGH THE SKY…’. The outline of the resulting explosion emanates in yellow, red and white; the work’s onomatopoeic title, ‘WHAAM!’, jags diagonally upwards to the left from the fireball in yellow, as if in visual response to the words of the pilot. The painting is rendered in the formal tradition of machine-printed comic strips – thick black lines enclosing areas of primary colour and lettering, with uniform areas of Ben-Day dots, purple for the shading on the main fighter plane and blue for the background of the sky.

The work’s composition is taken from a panel drawn by Irv Novick which appeared in issue number 89 of All-American Men of War, published by DC Comics in February 1962. ( COURTESY TATE GALLERY )