Roy Lichtenstein Aspen Winter Jazz Screen-Print - 1967 Leo Castelli Gallery

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Aspen Winter Jazz Poster 1967
Original screen-print on heavy, glossy white paper. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery … more ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Aspen Winter Jazz Poster 1967
Original screen-print on heavy, glossy white paper. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery for the Aspen Jazz Festival in 1967. Printed by Chiron Press, New York. The project was initiated by John and Kimiko Powers who invited several leading jazz musicians to participate in a weekend called the Aspen Jazz Festival in 1967. Page 82 #44 of "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein" a catalogue raisonne 1948-1993.

This screen-print is in excellent condition and not linen backed. A rare gem early print of one of the most collected modern masters.

LICHTENSTEIN'S LOVE OF JAZZ:
“What I really want to do is music,” Roy Lichtenstein joked in a 1997 interview. “But I won’t give up my day job!” The son of a gifted piano player, the Pop artist grew up surrounded by music, playing a variety of instruments as a child, and attending concerts at the Apollo theater as a teenager. Lichtenstein was especially drawn to the improvisational style of jazz, and he often painted in his studio to the tunes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. When Lichtenstein turned 70, he even began saxophone lessons with the renowned jazz saxophonist Hayes Greenfield as his teacher. In 1995 and 1996, just a few years into his studies, the Pop artist released a series of silkscreens featuring musical staves and notes swirling across the paper, celebrating the freeform spirit of jazz.

Dimensions: 40 in. x 26 in. (1016 x 660 mm.)

About the Artist:
Born in New York, Roy Lichtenstein developed an interest in drawing, science, and jazz music at a young age. In 1939 he took summer classes at the Art Students League, where he was taught by Reginald Marsh. From 1940 to 1942 he continued his studies at Ohio State University with Hoyt L. Sherman, among others, before being drafted into military service from 1943 to 1945. After World War II he stayed briefly in Paris, where he studied French and visited the Louvre. Supported by the G.I. Bill, Lichtenstein returned from Europe and resumed his art studies at the School of Fine Arts at Ohio State. After graduating in 1949 with an MFA, he continued to work in Ohio as a teacher, designer, and decorator; during this time he would periodically bring his work to show to galleries in Manhattan. Hoping to be closer to the city, in 1957 Lichtenstein accepted an assistant professorship of art at the State University of New York at Oswego. In 1960 he was appointed to Douglass College at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he met Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg. The next year, Leo Castelli agreed to represent him, and his career quickly took off. Resolving to dedicate himself to his art, Lichtenstein resigned from Rutgers in 1963 and moved to New York. He settled in Southampton, Long Island, in 1970, and in 1984 he acquired a studio loft in Manhattan. He split his time between Southampton and Manhattan until his death in 1997.

About Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City:
Castelli Gallery was founded by Leo Castelli in 1957. Considered the most influential art dealer of the Post-War period, Leo Castelli had a gift for discovering new talents. Under his leadership, the gallery became the epicenter of Pop Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Post-Minimal Art.

Since 1999, the gallery has been operated under the direction of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli. Ms. Bertozzi Castelli continues the gallery’s commitment to promoting the work of artists including Jasper Johns, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Richard Pettibone, and Keith Sonnier. The gallery maintains two exhibition spaces: an Upper East Side location at 18 East 77th Street, and 24 West 40th Street, across from Bryant Park. less