Roy Lichtenstein
Hat
New York City, USA: Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968
49.5 x 35.6 cm.
Edition of 2000
The fourth issue of William Copley’s S.M.S. object periodical (below) contained a bookwork by John Cage, a cassette by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, a burned bowtie by Lil Picard, a sticker by Bob Watts, Prison Poems by Domenico Rotella, as well as work by Robert Stanley, Arman, Paul Bergtold, Hollis Frampton, On Kawara and Princess Winifred.
Perhaps the best known contribution is Hat by Roy Lichtenstein. The work is an offset lithograph of wave patterns and nautical motifs on laminated plastic sheet, printed double-sided and folded like a child’s hat.
Like most of the S.M.S. editions, it was published in an edition of 2000, with the first hundred signed by the artist for the Deluxe set. A complete set of the Deluxe edition is valued at approximately twenty-five thousand US dollars.
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