• editioned print
  • screenprint
  • color
  • 350 x 76.8 cm. (135 x 30 1/4 inches)
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Wrapping Paper

Roy Lichtenstein

description

Full roll of wrapping paper designed by Roy Liechtenstein, published by Bert Stern as one of the first products for his store, On 1st.

"On 1st, a shop being billed as 'a superstore for art as objects' opened, more or less yesterday. The first customers began filing past the O-shaped window at 1 P.M. Nine closed-circuit television screens in the window blinked, blurred or remained blank. The shoppers walked through the doorway—a huge 'n' arching the entrance to complete the spelling of the store's first name—and entered a cave-like environment that the owner, Bert Stern, the photographer and moviemaker, says 'suggests infinity.

But the choices were definitely finite. In fact there were twofold. The only items for sale were Gerald Laing's boldly patterned paper plates at $3 a box for a set of 20, and Roy Lichtenstein's wapping paper, at $1 a sheet measuring 30 inches square.

'Only sell the plates and the wrapping paper today,' the calm, blue-eyed Mr. Stern said. 'Take orders on everything else.'" -- from "You Go Past the 'O' And Under the 'N'," by Rita Reif, The New York Times, November 15, 1968

references

No. II.44 in "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein : A Catalogue Raisonné 1948 - 1993" by Mary Lee Corlett, Ruth E. Fine. New York / Washington, NY / DC : Hudson Hills Press / National Gallery of Art, 1994, pp. 286.
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