Highly displayable original color ‘pop art’ painting of Mickey Mantle by acclaimed artist Allison Lefcort, accomplished in acrylic on 24 x 24 stretched canvas, and depicting Mantle in grayscale in an up-close, front-facing pose against a bright blue background, signed in the lower left in silver ink, “Allison Lefcort, 31.” Reverse edge is also signed in black felt tip, “#1867, Yankee Mickey Mantle, 2006, Allison Lefcort, 31.” In fine condition.
Lefcort is an internationally known pop artist whose portraits of artists like Sting, Phil Collins, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Luciano Pavarotti, Gloria Estefan, Bonnie Raitt, David Crosby, and Stevie Wonder hang in the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences offices in Los Angeles. The Gibson Guitar Company commissioned Lefcort to create an image of John Lennon to be used for a limited edition serigraph as part the John Lennon Ltd Edition Guitar package.
