Offset lithograph. Signed in pencil in the lower right. On light, off-white wove paper. 43.8 x 59 cm. Sheet: 45,8 x 60,5 cm.
Printed by Colorcraft, New York. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Published as an announcement of the Lichtenstein exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, September 28-October 24, 1963. These announcements are unnumbered copies printed on the reverse, which were folded by Castelli into mailing format and sent out. This sheet belongs to the unnumbered edition without the typographic inscription on the verso, although it is signed. These were sold at the Castelli Gallery during the exhibition and given to special clients (www.lichtensteincatalogue.org). [KA].

• Pop Art Icon: Crying Girl (1963) is one of Roy Lichtenstein’s most distinctive motifs.
• Emotion, beauty, and distance: An ambivalent, compelling effect unfolds between media spectacle and psychological intensity.
• Lichtenstein’s works are part of the artistic canon of Pop Art, one of the most significant movements of the 20th century
• Other copies are held in major collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Graphic Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
LITERATURE: Each probably a different copy: Andrea Theil, Crying Girl, 1963 (RLCR 759), in: Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonné, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York, (www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=295 (accessed April 10, 2026)). Mary Lee Corlett, The prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A catalogue raisonné 1948-1997, New York 1994, CR no. II.1 (illustrated in color). - Paul Bianchini, Roy Lichtenstein. Drawings and Prints, Lausanne 1970, cat. no. 4 (illustrated in b/w on p. 217). Henri Zerner, The Graphic Art of Roy Lichtenstein, exhibition catalog, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA 1975, cat. no. 6. Claude Pommereau, Roy Lichtenstein au Centre Pompidou, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2013, p. 26 (illustrated in color).

Frank Fleugel Galerie, Nuremberg/Kitzbühel. Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above around 2015)

In good condition. The sheet is overall slightly browned (somewhat unevenly along the edges) and has been minimally trimmed on the sides. There are very few isolated tiny holes, as well as a tiny tear in the center of the sheet that has been expertly repaired. A few small areas of color loss in the yellow and red in the lower left. The edges of the sheet show isolated areas of minor paper loss, professionally repaired.