JAMES ROSENQUIST, Earth & Moon (from Cold Light Series), 1971

Rarely to market, this marvelous early (1971) Pop Art mixed media Rosenquist piece, a 9-color lithograph on white Arches Cover paper with vacuum formed plastic hourglass containing plastic beads, explores the hourglass theme (long before, by the way, Ed Ruscha did), of time, Earth, Moon - the cosmos - with an actual plexiglass hourglass and "sand" ingeniously added to the piece. The photographs don't do justice to the piece; there is actual sand - that flows - just like an hour glass. "Earth & Moon" is #XI of XXX Artist Proofs, aside from the regular edition of only 70. This uncommon work - from one of the most desirable eras in Pop Art history - is framed and ready to hang.
Published by: Graphicstudio, University of South Florida
Measurements:
Framed: Height: 19 inches by Width: 17.5 inches
Unframed: Height 16.9 in.; Width 15.5 in.
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Glenn, Constance. Time Dust: James Rosenquist Complete Graphics: 1962-1992. New York: Rizzoli, 1993. #43

Signed, titled, annotated "U.S.F. XI" and dated 1971 in pencil on the recto (front); framed. sheet Bears distinctive blind stamp and copyright logo from the publisher, Graphicstudio, University of South Florida. 

Literature: Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Glenn, Constance. Time Dust: James Rosenquist Complete Graphics: 1962-1992. New York: Rizzoli, 1993. #43