Salute to Airmail
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/2 inchesSalute to Airmail, 1968
solid silver multiple with plexiglas base
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
Edition of 50 + 4 AP's
With original black plexiglas base
Signed with the Artist's incised initials and stamp-numbered from edition of 50 on the bottom edge.
Published by the International Collectors Society, New York to commemorate the 50th Anniversaries of International Airmail Service and the United States Airmail Service.
Fabricators: Medallic Art Company, New York, cast; Robert Kulicke, plexiglass base.
Literature
Tancock, John L. Multiples: The First Decade. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971, exhibition catalogue, unpaginated.
Jewish Museum, New York. Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things. New York: Jewish Museum, 1969, exhibition catalogue, unpaginated.
Theil, Andrea. “Salute to Airmail, c. 1968 (published 1969 and 1986) (RLCR 1637).” In Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Exhibitions
Jewish Museum, New York, Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things, April 16, 1969–June 29, 1969, another example.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Multiples: The First Decade, March 5, 1971–April 4, 1971, another example.
In 1968, the International Collectors Society of New York commissioned the artist to create this editioned sculpture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of both the United States Airmail Service (1968) and United States International Airmail Service (1969).
ROY LICHTENSTEIN AIRMAIL
In 1968, the International Collectors Society of New York commissioned the artist to create this editioned sculpture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of both the United States Airmail Service (1968) and United States International Airmail Service (1969).
Each cast came with a certificate of authenticity from the International Collectors Society. 
The artist produced two 17-inch plaster maquettes depicting in high relief the Empire State Building, an airmail plane in flight and other Art Deco symbols (per an undated letter from the President of the International Collectors Society, New York, to its members, RLF Archives); these were used to devise a mold for the reduced-sized tabletop sculpture. More than half of the edition was cast in three metals in 1969 with the balance done with the artist’s permission in 1986 by James Goodman Gallery, New York.
