
It was created in 1965, one of the most influential periods in the Op Art movement, around the time that Anuszkiewicz was featured on the cover of Life Magazine. The work was part of a series of prints created over the years by renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Christo, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Alex Katz and others as a fundraiser for the Paris Review literary publication. This Anuszkiewicz silkscreen was printed by Steve Poleskie of Chiron Press, NYC and published by the Paris Review.
This piece is fully referenced in the catalogue Richard Anuszkiewicz Prints and Multiples 1964-79, with Checklist of Major Prints, Posters and Multiples by David Brooks and Gene Baro, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1st. edition, 1979.