Fish and Sky

1967

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist Fine Creations, Inc., Printer Roy Lichtenstein, Printer Variview, Printer + 1 more

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About the Artwork

Title Fish and Sky

Artwork Date 1967

Makers Roy Lichtenstein (Artist) American, 1923-1997 Fine Creations, Inc. (Printer) American Roy Lichtenstein (Printer) American, 1923-1997 Variview (Printer) American Tanglewood Press, Inc. (Publisher) American

Medium Screenprint in color over two photographs on laminated textured plastic and white paper on white cardboard mount

Dimensions Image: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Framed: 24 1/2 × 20 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (62.2 × 52.7 × 3.8 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Rattner

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F79.83

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Signed Signed, in pencil, lower right: rf Lichtenstein

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 91/200

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Dr. and Mrs. William Rattner (Birmingham, Michigan, USA);
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Waldman, D. Roy Lichtenstein Drawings and Prints. New York, 1970, p. 226, no. 25.

"Season's Greetings." Printable News (December 1979): p. 3 (ill.).

American Prints 1960-1985. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1986, p. 230.

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Roy Lichtenstein, Fish and Sky, 1967, screenprint in color over two photographs on laminated textured plastic and white paper on white cardboard mount. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Rattner, F79.83.