PRODUCT DESCRIPTION :
 
NOW SOLD
 
These two high quality prints were produced by the Tate gallery, London, England 2008.
Taken from the original artwork by Roy Lichtenstein which he produced in 1963.
 
Sold together as a Diptych these would look great framed and on display.
 
Showing some wear via small creasing in places ( more so on Whamm ) this in our opinion does not detract from the overall visual impact of these iconic prints.
 
 
SIZE : 800mm high x 600mm wide per print
 
CONDITION :
Some minor creasing in places, please see images, showing great colour.
 
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 )