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Image 10.25 x 8.5 in. / 26 x 21.5 cm
Paper 17 x 13.5 in. / 43 x 34 cm
Two color lithograph on thick, textured Douglass Howell handmade paper. Signed by the artist and dated lower right in pencil; numbered 21/28 lower left in pencil. Paper is watermarked H lower left.
This lithograph features a dramatically-lit, outstretched hand, swimming in electric, neon blue, with two soft white shapes below. The hand is a recurring motif in Rosenquist’s work, isolated from the body and often appropriated from advertising. Rosenquist printed this as a birth announcement for his son. Along the base of the image in bronze-brown, the artist’s looping cursive reads: “John Adams Rosenquist heir apparent Sept 25 1964”
Catalogue reference: Constance W. Glenn Time Dust: James Rosenquist Complete Graphics 1962 – 1992, Rizzoli, New York 1993, no. 7 illustrated
A small square of tape residue on upper left and right corners, verso, and crease on lower left corner, as photographed.