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ROY LICHTENSTEIN Salute to Airmail.
Chromium-plated copper multiple, 1968. 142x90x39 mm; 5 1/2x3 1/2x1 1/2 inches (including pedestal). Incised initials and stamp numbered 36/50 (the total edition is 150, with an additional 50 in silver and 50 in polished bronze). Published by International Collectors Society, New York.
Provenance: Irving Luntz, Palm Beach; private collection, New York.
Published: Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, A Catalogue Raisonné, Washington, D.C., 1994, page 27.
According to Corlett, issued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversaries of International Airmail Service and the United States Airmail Service, which occured within a year of each other.
