Roy Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles. He began his artistic career as an abstract expressionist painter exploring the ideas of spontaneity and the epoch of crisis inherent in action painting. As America began to move past the effects of World War II and into prosperous times, art no longer needed to be an emotional reaction to the effects of nuclear war and industrialization. Instead, it became a commentary on American prosperity and the commercial boom that resulted from the war efforts. Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings and prints are the embodiment of this change.
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Nude with Blue Hair, State I 1994 Lithograph 51.25 x 31.5 inches Signed, numbered and dated in pencil |
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Nude with Yellow Pillow 1994 Relief print in colors 53 x 43 inches Edition of 60 Signed and numbered in pencil |
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Couple Woodcut with embossing on paper 33.5 x 29.5 inches Signed, numbered and dated in pencil |
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Crak! c. 1963 Offset lithograph 19.3 x 27.6 inches Signed in pencil; from the unnumbered edition |
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Art Critic 1996 Screenprint 19.75 x 13.3 inches Edition of 150 Signed and numbered in pencil |
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Reflections on Expressionist Painting 1990 Color silkscreen with encaustic, wax and magna 60 x 40 inches Edition Edition of 60 Signed, numbered and dated in pencil |
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