126. Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)

"Joanna".
offset lithograph in yellow and blue on white wove paper, signed in pencil lower right, edition size unknown, unframed.
15-7/16" x 22-5/8" (image).

2,500/3,500     

Lichtenstein created this poster for the movie Joanna at the request of its writer-director, Michael Sarne. "The movie, a 20th-Century Fox release, was produced by Michael Laughlin and photgraphed by Walter Lassally. It starred Genevieve Waite as Joanna and Donald Sutherland as Lord Peter. The image was used in newspaper advertisements for the film, but the poster [published by Fox] was never released or distributed." (from Mary Lee Corbett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonne 1948-1993, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1994, cat. no. III.24, p. 275).

Condition: excellent.