About This Lot
This dazzling and rare screenprint by Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most popular works from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists. Created during in the middle of the 1960s at the height of the Pop Art movement, she subject matter, Moonscape is also prescient, as the first man would land on the moon by the end of the decade. Lichtenstein created Moonscape on blue moire Rowlux illusion vinyl film paper, a thick, metallic stock that gives the work an impressive luminosity. Of course through the glowing shades of blue, Lichtenstein includes his characteristic Benday dots in a vibrant red, imbuing this beautiful landscape with a distinctly Pop aesthetic.
Other impressions of Moonscape can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate, United Kingdom, among many other important public collections. Another impression was featured in retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and in the retrospective of the artist's prints at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.