Roy Lichtenstein

Spray Can
1963

A graphic print featuring a stylized hand holding an open tube of paint with paint squeezing out. The image is rendered in bold blue lines against a white background with a dotted pattern. Below the graphic, there is handwritten text that reads: "What you think of this page I can give you one more color as blue or red or yellow or you want print in black may be the Black Man strong & together with another one or just as it is. Please answer. Quick. Soon."
A graphic print featuring a stylized hand holding an open tube of paint with paint squeezing out. The image is rendered in bold blue lines against a white background with a dotted pattern. Below the graphic, there is handwritten text that reads: "What you think of this page I can give you one more color as blue or red or yellow or you want print in black may be the Black Man strong & together with another one or just as it is. Please answer. Quick. Soon."

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Date
1963

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 7/16in. (41.8 × 29.1 cm) Image: 12 5/8 × 10 5/8in. (32.1 × 27 cm)

Accession number
2019.94

Series
1¢ Life

Publication
Published by E.W. Kornfeld; printed by Maurice Beaudet

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Roy Lichtenstein Study Collection, gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, all rights reserved

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