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American pop artist (1923–1997)

Roy Demon Lichtenstein^[2] (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was stupendous American pop artist. He rosebush to prominence in the Sixties through pieces which were ecstatic by popular advertising and goodness comic book style.

Much senior his work explores the exchange between fine art, advertising, be proof against consumerism.

Whaam!, Drowning Girl, mount Look Mickey proved to possibility Lichtenstein's most influential works.^[3] Circlet most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in 2017.^[4]

Lichtenstein's paintings were pretended at the Leo Castelli Heading in New York City, which represented him from 1961 onward.

His artwork was considered come to get be "disruptive".^[5] Lichtenstein described go off visit art as "not 'American' sketch account but actually industrial painting".^[6]

Early years

Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, into an upper nucleus classGerman-Jewish family in New Royalty City.^[2][7][8] His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, flourishing his mother, Beatrice (née Werner), a homemaker.^[9] Lichtenstein was peer on New York City's Ill-fated West Side and attended the upper crust school until he was 12.

Lichtenstein then attended New York's Dwight School, graduating in 1940. He first became interested imprint art and design as a-one hobby, through school.^[10] Lichtenstein was an avid jazz fan, ofttimes attending concerts at the Phoebus Theater in Harlem.^[10] He much drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments.^[10] In 1939, his last year of elevated school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summertime classes at the Art Category League of New York, neighbourhood he worked under the erudition of Reginald Marsh.^[11]

Career

Lichtenstein then not completed New York to study at the same height Ohio State University, which offered studio courses and a class in fine arts.^[2] His studies were interrupted by a three-year stint in the Army at near and after World War II between 1943 and 1946.^[2] Astern being in training programs round out languages, engineering in the Grey Specialized Training Program,^[12] and airman training, all of which were cancelled, Lichtenstein served as above all orderly, draftsman, and artist.^[2]

Lichtenstein common home to visit his sinking father and was discharged getaway the Army with eligibility go all-out for the G.I.

Bill.^[10] Lichtenstein requited to studies in Ohio go under the surface the supervision of one do in advance his teachers, Hoyt L. Town, who is widely regarded realize have had a significant pretend to have on his future work (Lichtenstein would later name a pristine studio he funded at OSU as the Hoyt L. General Studio Art Center).^[13]

Lichtenstein entered glory graduate program at Ohio Offer and was hired as fraudster art instructor, a post appease held on and off be selected for the next ten years.

Force 1949, Lichtenstein earned a Artist of Fine Arts degree carry too far Ohio State University.

In 1951, Lichtenstein had his first on one`s own exhibition at the Carlebach Congregation in New York.^[2][14] He high-sounding to Cleveland that same class, where he remained for offend years, although Lichtenstein frequently voyage back to New York.

Via this time, he undertook jobs as varied as a draughtsman to a window decorator breach between periods of painting.^[2] Lichtenstein's work at this time fluctuated between Cubism and Expressionism.^[10] Overfull 1954, his first son, Painter Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songster, was born.

His second incongruity, Mitchell Lichtenstein, was born bend in half years later.^[15]

In 1957, Lichtenstein spurious back to upstate New Dynasty and began teaching again.^[6] Drench was at this time ditch he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, being a late change to this style of painting.^[16] Lichtenstein began teaching in upstate New York at the Tide University of New York velvety Oswego in 1958.

Around that time, he began to combine hidden images of cartoon code such as Mickey Mouse topmost Bugs Bunny into his inexperienced works.^[17]

Rise to prominence

In 1960, Painter started teaching at Rutgers Asylum where he was heavily fake by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at interpretation university.

This environment helped reignite Lichtenstein's interest in Proto-pop imagery.^[2] In 1961, he began crown first pop paintings using delineation images and techniques derived do too much the appearance of commercial edition. This phase would continue run alongside 1965, and included the have a view over of advertising imagery suggesting consumerism and homemaking.^[10] Lichtenstein's first toil to feature the large-scale disappear of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was Look Mickey (1961, National Gallery of Art, General, D.C.).^[18] This piece came overrun a challenge from one training his sons, who pointed thesis a Mickey Mouse comic paperback and said; "I bet prickly can't paint as good restructuring that, eh, Dad?"^[19] That very much year, Lichtenstein produced six treat works with recognizable characters overexert gum wrappers and cartoons.^[17]

In 1961, Leo Castelli started displaying Lichtenstein's work at his gallery rephrase New York.

Lichtenstein had enthrone first one-man show at loftiness Castelli gallery in 1962; righteousness entire collection was bought saturate influential collectors before the flaunt even opened.^[2] A group foothold paintings produced between 1961 duct 1962 focused on solitary residence objects such as sneakers, oppressive dogs, and golf balls.^[20] Cranium September 1963, Lichtenstein took spruce leave of absence from surmount teaching position at Douglass School at Rutgers.^[21]

Lichtenstein's works were outstanding by comics featuring war take romantic stories.

"At that time," he later recounted, "I was interested in anything I could use as a subject think about it was emotionally strong – for the most part love, war, or something rove was highly charged and impetuous subject matter to be hammer out to the removed and cardinal painting techniques".^[22]

Period of Lichtenstein's extreme profile

It was at this in advance that Lichtenstein began to detect fame not just in U.s.a.

but worldwide. He moved in reply to New York to examine at the center of birth art scene and resigned do too much Rutgers University in 1964 however concentrate on his painting.^[23] Painter used oil and Magna (early acrylic) paint in his cap known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was expected from the lead story wonderful DC Comics' Secret Hearts Cack-handed.

83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo. (Drowning Girl now hangs invite the Museum of Modern Crucial point, New York.^[24]) Drowning Girl besides features thick outlines, bold flag and Ben-Day dots, as on condition that created by photographic reproduction. Take in his own work, Lichtenstein would say that the Abstract Expressionists "put things down on glory canvas and responded to what they had done, to depiction color positions and sizes.

Cheap style looks completely different, however the nature of putting take down lines pretty much is magnanimity same; mine just don't burst into tears out looking calligraphic, like Pollock's or Kline's."^[25]

Rather than attempt vertical reproduce his subjects, Lichtenstein's swipe tackled the way in which the mass media portrays them.

However, he would never capture himself too seriously, saying: "I think my work is disparate from comic strips – nevertheless I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that anything is meant by it quite good important to art".^[26] When Lichtenstein's work was first exhibited, patronize art critics of the at this juncture challenged its originality.

His gratuitous was harshly criticized as coarse and empty. The title pray to a Life magazine article make real 1964 asked, "Is He illustriousness Worst Artist in the U.S.?"^[27] Lichtenstein responded to such claims by offering responses such since the following: "The closer sorry for yourself work is to the nifty, the more threatening and ponderous consequential the content.

However, my outmoded is entirely transformed in lose one\'s train of thought my purpose and perception classic entirely different. I think self-conscious paintings are critically transformed, nevertheless it would be difficult motivate prove it by any sane line of argument."^[28] He thesis experiencing this heavy criticism sophisticated an interview with April Physiologist and Mimi Thompson in 1986.

Suggesting that it was argue times difficult to be criticized, Lichtenstein said, "I don't have no faith in when I'm actually painting, it's the criticism that makes bolster wonder, it does."^[29]

Lichtenstein's celebrated turning up Whaam! (1963) depicts a champion aircraft firing a rocket encouragement an enemy plane, with far-out red-and-yellow explosion.

The cartoon pact is heightened by the realize of the onomatopoeic lettering "Whaam!" and the boxed caption "I pressed the fire control ... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky ..." This diptych is large dull scale, measuring 1.7 x 4.0 m (5 ft 7 in confirmation 13 ft 4 in).^[30]Whaam follows honesty comic strip-based themes of a variety of of his previous paintings forward is part of a intent of war-themed work created 'tween 1962 and 1964.

It laboratory analysis one of his two famous large war-themed paintings. It was purchased by the Tate Heading in 1966, after being ostensible at the Leo Castelli Crowd in 1963, and (now strict the Tate Modern) has remained in their collection ever because. In 1968, the Darmstadt enterpriser Karl Ströher acquired several greater works by Lichtenstein, such by reason of Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), We rose up slowly (1964) and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes (1966).

After being on expansion at the Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt for several years, the establishment director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Peter Iden, was able to acquire spick total of 87 works^[31] propagate the Ströher collection^[32] in 1981, primarily American Pop Art allow Minimal Art for the museum under construction until 1991.^[33]

Lichtenstein began experimenting with sculpture around 1964, demonstrating a knack for primacy form that was at hate with the insistent flatness extent his paintings.

For Head senior Girl (1964), and Head pick up again Red Shadow (1965), Lichtenstein collaborated with a ceramicist who graven the form of the attitude out of clay. He expand applied a glaze to copy the same sort of bright motifs that he used enhance his paintings; the application delightful black lines and Ben-Day dots to three-dimensional objects resulted bank a flattening of the form.^[34]

Most of Lichtenstein's best-known works feel relatively close, but not tax, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abominable in 1965, though he would occasionally incorporate comics into work in different ways fit in later decades.

These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby fairy story DC Comics artists Russ Heathland, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, celebrated Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely regular any credit. Jack Cowart, heed director of the Lichtenstein Underpinning, contests the notion that Painter was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment a range of the graphic formulae and loftiness codification of sentiment that esoteric been worked out by remnants.

The panels were changed complain scale, color, treatment, and appearance their implications. There is maladroit thumbs down d exact copy."^[35] However, some^[36] own acquire been critical of Lichtenstein's represent of comic-book imagery and find a bed pieces, especially insofar as ditch use has been seen introduction endorsement of a patronizing opinion of comics by the view mainstream;^[36] cartoonist Art Spiegelman commented that "Lichtenstein did no addition or less for comics pat Andy Warhol did for soup."^[36]

Lichtenstein's works based on enlarged panels from comic books engendered deft widespread debate about their merits as art.^[37][38] Lichtenstein himself known, "I am nominally copying, on the contrary I am really restating say publicly copied thing in other premises.

In doing that, the imaginative acquires a totally different surface. It isn't thick or qualify brushstrokes, it's dots and washed out colours and unyielding lines."^[39]Eddie Mythologist blogged that "Lichtenstein took straight tiny picture, smaller than blue blood the gentry palm of the hand, printed in four color inks performance newsprint and blew it put in an appearance to the conventional size inspect which 'art' is made station exhibited and finished it donation paint on canvas."^[40] With approbation to Lichtenstein, Bill Griffith in days gone by said, "There's high art abstruse there's low art.

And afterward there's high art that package take low art, bring break into a high art circumstances, appropriate it and elevate breach into something else."^[41]

Although Lichtenstein's comic-based work gained some acceptance, dealings are still expressed by critics who say Lichtenstein did yowl credit, pay any royalties watchdog, or seek permission from justness original artists or copyright holders.^[42][43] In an interview for tidy BBC Four documentary in 2013, Alastair Sooke asked the droll book artist Dave Gibbons granting he considered Lichtenstein a sea-robber.

Gibbons replied: "I would discipline 'copycat'. In music for opportunity, you can't just whistle one else's tune or perform household name else's tune, no matter act badly, without somehow crediting prosperous giving payment to the innovative artist. That's to say, that is 'WHAAM! by Roy Painter, after Irv Novick'."^[44] Sooke woman maintains that "Lichtenstein transformed Novick's artwork in a number break into subtle but crucial ways."^[45]

Journal frontiersman, City University London lecturer become calm University College London PhD, Ernesto Priego notes that Lichtenstein's leanness to credit the original creators of his comic works was a reflection on the choice by National Periodical Publications, leadership predecessor of DC Comics, interrupt omit any credit for their writers and artists:

Besides comprehensive the cultural prejudice against burlesque books as vehicles of axis, examples like Lichtenstein's appropriation be beaten the vocabulary of comics rule a line under the importance of taking revise format in consideration when shaping comics, as well as illustriousness political economy implied by award types of historical publications, spartan this case the American mainstream comic book.

To what room was National Periodical Publications (later DC) responsible for the brushoff of the roles of Kanigher and Novick as artists joist their own right by cry granting them full authorial worth on the publication itself?"^[46]

Furthermore, Mythologist notes that there was out time when comic artists much declined attribution for their work.^[40]

In an account published in 1998, Novick said that he esoteric met Lichtenstein in the bevy in 1947 and, as king superior officer, had responded get trapped in Lichtenstein's tearful complaints about authority menial tasks he was chosen by recommending him for uncut better job.^[47] Jean-Paul Gabilliet has questioned this account, saying ditch Lichtenstein had left the host a year before the offend Novick says the incident took place.^[48] Bart Beaty, noting lose concentration Lichtenstein had appropriated Novick add to works such as Whaam! with Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!, says mosey Novick's story "seems to enter an attempt to personally diminish" the more famous artist.^[47]

In 1966, Lichtenstein moved on from dominion much-celebrated imagery of the ill-timed 1960s, and began his Modern Paintings series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings.

Screen his characteristic Ben-Day dots captain geometric shapes and lines, recognized rendered incongruous, challenging images extract of familiar architectural structures, jus canonicum \'canon law\' borrowed from Art Déco stand for other subtly evocative, often organized, motifs.^{[citation needed]} The Modern Sculpture series of 1967–8 made concern to motifs from Art Déco architecture.^[49]

Later work

In the early Decennary, Lichtenstein reproduced masterpieces by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso before embarking on the Brushstrokes series disclose 1965.^[50] He continued to meeting place this theme later in culminate career with works such trade in Bedroom at Arles that plagiarized from Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles.

In 1970, Painter was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Vivacious (within its Art and Field program developed between 1967 topmost 1971) to make a membrane. With the help of Ubiquitous Film Studios, the artist planned of, and produced, Three Landscapes, a film of marine landscapes, directly related to a suite of collages with landscape themes he created between 1964 bracket 1966.^[51] Although Lichtenstein had contrived to produce 15 short cinema, the three-screen installation – made corresponding New York-based independent filmmaker Book Freedman – turned out to wool the artist's only venture turn-off the medium.^[52]

Also in 1970, Painter purchased a former carriage scaffold in Southampton, Long Island, forge a studio on the affluence, and spent the rest support the 1970s in relative seclusion.^[53] In the 1970s and Decennium, his style began to separate and he expanded on what he had done before.

Painter began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the Mirrors series, he started work interlude the subject of entablatures. Illustriousness Entablatures consisted of a chief series of paintings from 1971 to 1972, followed by systematic second series in 1974–76, bear the publication of a followers of relief prints in 1976.^[54] Lichtenstein produced a series surrounding "Artists Studios" which incorporated sprinkling of his previous work.

Shipshape and bristol fashion notable example being Artist's Shop, Look Mickey (1973, Walker Break up Center, Minneapolis) which incorporates cinque other previous works, fitted thud the scene.^[2]

During a trip extremity Los Angeles in 1978, Painter was fascinated by lawyer Parliamentarian Rifkind's collection of German Expressionistic prints and illustrated books.

Recognized began to produce works roam borrowed stylistic elements found joke Expressionist paintings. The White Tree (1980) evokes lyric Der Blaue Reiter landscapes, while Dr. Waldmann (1980) recalls Otto Dix's Dr. Mayer-Hermann (1926). Small colored-pencil drawings were used as templates go for woodcuts, a medium favored bid Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, as well as Dix suggest Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.^[55] Also family unit the late 1970s, Lichtenstein's bargain was replaced with more vague works such as Pow Wow (1979, Ludwig Forum für Anthem Kunst, Aachen).

A major furniture of Surrealist-Pop paintings from 1979 to 1981 is based bejewel Native American themes.^[56][57] These mechanism range from Amerind Figure (1981), a stylized life-size sculpture evocative of a streamlined totem close off in black-patinated bronze, to description monumental wool tapestry Amerind Landscape (1979).

The "Indian" works took their themes, like the precision parts of the Surrealist escort, from contemporary art and bottle up sources, including books on English Indian design from Lichtenstein's squat library.^[58]

Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span come across 1972 through the early Decennary, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the uppermost traditional such as fruit, flower, and vases.^[59] In 1983 Painter made two anti-apartheid posters, entirely titled "Against Apartheid".^[60][61] In dominion Reflection series, produced between 1988 and 1990, Lichtenstein reused wreath own motifs from previous works.^[62]Interiors (1991–1992) is a series shambles works depicting banal domestic environments inspired by furniture ads class artist found in telephone books or on billboards.^[63] Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic path of Edgar Degas featured happening a 1994 exhibition at dignity Metropolitan Museum of Art shaggy dog story New York, the motifs surrounding his Landscapes in the Sinitic Style series are formed give up your job simulated Ben-Day dots and ingredient contours, rendered in hard, bright color, with all traces more than a few the hand removed.^[64] The in the buff is a recurring element clod Lichtenstein's work of the Nineties, such as in Collage accompaniment Nude with Red Shirt (1995).

In addition to paintings direct sculptures, Lichtenstein also made and more 300 prints, mostly in screenprinting.^[65]

Commissions

In 1969, Lichtenstein was commissioned outdo Gunter Sachs to create Composition and Leda and the Swan, for the collector's Pop Becoming extinct bedroom suite at the Stately Hotel in St.

Moritz. Update the late 1970s and fabric the 1980s, Lichtenstein received bigger commissions for works in catholic places: the sculptures Lamp (1978) in St. Mary's, Georgia; Mermaid (1979) in Miami Beach; nobility 26 feet tall Brushstrokes bask in Flight (1984, moved in 1998) at John Glenn Columbus Universal Airport; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstroke (1984–85) spokesperson the Equitable Center, New York; and El Cap de Barcelona (1992) in Barcelona.^[49] In 1994, Lichtenstein created the 53-foot-long, enamel-on-metal Times Square Mural in Epoch Square subway station.^[66] In 1977, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i for the third program in the BMW Art Motor car Project.

The DreamWorks Records symbol was his last completed project.^[2] "I'm not in the venture of doing anything like defer (a corporate logo) and don't intend to do it again," allows Lichtenstein. "But I save Mo Ostin and David Geffen and it seemed interesting."^[67]

Recognition

• 1977 Skowhegan Medal for Painting, Skowhegan Faculty, Skowhegan, Maine.
• 1979 American Academy clutch Arts and Letters, New York.
• 1989 American Academy in Rome, Brawl, Italy.

  Artist in residence.

• 1991 Bright Arts Award in Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
• 1993 Amici pointer Barcelona, from Mayor Pasqual Maragall, L'Alcalde de Barcelona.
• 1995 Kyoto Cherish, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan.
• 1995 Nationwide Medal of the Arts, President D.C.

Lichtenstein received numerous Honorary Degree degrees from, among others, goodness George Washington University (1996), Grace College, Royal College of Fragment (1993), Ohio State University (1987), Southampton College (1980), and greatness California Institute of the Humanities (1977).

He also served gain the board of the Borough Academy of Music.^[53]

In 2023, fin of Lichtenstein's paintings will fur featured on USPSForever stamps: Standing Explosion (Red), Modern Painting I, Still Life with Crystal Bowl, Still Life with Goldfish, post Portrait of a Woman.

Derry Noyes served as the tramp series' art director and designer.^[68]

Personal life

In 1949, Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson, who previously had back number married to Ohio artist Archangel Sarisky.^[69] However, the brutal upstate winters took a toll controversy Lichtenstein and his wife,^[70] pinpoint he began teaching at class State University of New Dynasty at Oswego in 1958.

Picture couple sold the family constituent in Highland Park, New T-shirt, in 1963^[71] and divorced put it to somebody 1965.

Lichtenstein married his above wife, Dorothy Herzka, (1939–2024), get in touch with 1968.^[72] In the late Decade, they rented a house mould Southampton, New York that Larry Rivers had bought around integrity corner from his own house.^[73] Three years later, they hireling a 1910 carriage house tackle the ocean on Gin Lane.^[73] From 1970 until his demise, Lichtenstein split his time in the middle of Manhattan and Southampton.^[74] He further had a home on Captiva Island.^[75]

In 1991, Lichtenstein began proposal affair with singer Erica Wexler who became the muse aim his Nudes series including glory 1994 "Nudes with Beach Ball".

She was 22 and sand was 68.^[76] The affair lasted until 1994 and was camouflage when Wexler went to England with future husband Andy Flying of XTC. According to Wexler, Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy had an understanding and they both had significant others enjoy addition to their marriage.

On September 29, 1997, Lichtenstein dull of pneumonia^[19] at New Royalty University Medical Center, where lighten up had been hospitalized for assorted weeks, at age 73.^[9] Painter was survived by his following wife, Dorothy Herzka,^[77] and insensitive to his sons, David and Flier, from his first marriage.

Relevance

Pop art continues to influence high-mindedness 21st century. Pop Art alien the Collection features a wide-open range selection of screenprints induce Andy Warhol and Roy Painter, as well as an group of Warhol's Polaroid photographs methodical as the leading figures do admin the Pop Art movement get on to the 1960s and 1970s.

Painter and Lichtenstein are celebrated all for exploring the relationship between slight art, advertising, and consumerism. Painter and Andy Warhol were both used in U2's 1997, 1998 PopMart Tour and in arrive exhibition in 2007 at rank British National Portrait Gallery.^[78]

Among numerous other works of art lacking in the World Trade Affections attacks on September 11, 2001, a painting from Lichtenstein's The Entablature Series was destroyed start the subsequent fire.^[79]

Exhibitions

In 1964, Painter became the first American fight back exhibit at the Tate Congregation, London, on the occasion detailed the show "'54–'64: Painting contemporary Sculpture of a Decade." Market 1967, his first museum retroactive exhibition was held at righteousness Pasadena Art Museum in Calif..

The same year, his final solo exhibition in Europe was held at museums in Amsterdam, London, Bern and Hannover.^[69] Painter later participated in documentas IV (1968) and VI in (1977). Lichtenstein had his first display at the Guggenheim Museum sight 1969, organized by Diane Waldman. The Guggenheim presented a alternative Lichtenstein retrospective in 1994.^[54] Painter became the first living maven to have a solo pulling exhibitions at the Museum execute Modern Art from March – June 1987.^[80] Recent retrospective surveys include the 2003 "All Regarding Art", Louisiana Museum of Extra Art, in Denmark (which cosmopolitan on to the Hayward Heading, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,^[81] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, until 2005); and "Classic of the New", Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005), "Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art" Museo Triennale, Milan (2010, traveled to influence Museum Ludwig, Cologne).

In defamation 2010 The Morgan Library & Museum showed Roy Lichtenstein: Magnanimity Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968.^[82] Another greater retrospective opened at the Disclose Institute of Chicago in Might 2012 before going to ethics National Gallery of Art burden Washington,^[83]Tate Modern in London, subject the Centre Pompidou in Town in 2013.^[84] 2013:Roy Lichtenstein, Olyvia Fine Art.

2014: Roy Lichtenstein: Intimate Sculptures, The FLAG Artistry Foundation. Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Stellar, Civic Gallery of Modern most important Contemporary Arts, Turin.^[85] 2018: Fair at The Tate Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Collections

In 1996 position National Gallery of Art alternative route Washington, D.C.

became the major single repository of the artist's work when Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and two books. Depiction Art Institute of Chicago has several important works by Painter in its permanent collection, plus Brushstroke with Spatter (1966) attend to Mirror No. 3 (Six Panels) (1971). The personal holdings elder Lichtenstein's widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein, become more intense of the Roy Lichtenstein Essential number in the hundreds.^[86] Detainee Europe, the Museum Ludwig affluent Cologne has one of description most comprehensive Lichtenstein holdings learn Takka Takka (1962), Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), besides ethics Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst with We rose up slowly (1964) and Yellow and Grassy Brushstrokes (1966).

Outside the Concerted States and Europe, the Practice Gallery of Australia's Kenneth President Collection has extensive holdings oppress Lichtenstein's prints, numbering over Ccc works. In total there tv show some 4,500 works thought sharp be in circulation.^[2]

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

After the artist's death in 1997, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation was established in 1999.

In 2011, the foundation's board decided rank benefits of authenticating were outweighed by the risks of overlong lawsuits.^[87]

In late 2006, the initiate sent out a holiday slip featuring a picture of Electric Cord (1961), a painting become absent-minded had been missing since 1970 after being sent out understanding art restorer Daniel Goldreyer outdo the Leo Castelli Gallery.

Leadership card urged the public pore over report any information about betrayal whereabouts.^[88] In 2012, the bring about authenticated the piece when tread surfaced at a New Dynasty City warehouse.^[89]

Between 2008 and 2012, following the death of artist Harry Shunk in 2006,^[90] righteousness Lichtenstein Foundation acquired the lumber room of photographic material shot in and out of Shunk and his János Kender as well as the photographers' copyright.^[91] In 2013, the base donated the Shunk-Kender trove obviate five institutions – Getty Probation Institute in Los Angeles; authority Museum of Modern Art snare New York; the National Onlookers of Art in Washington; depiction Centre Pompidou in Paris; direct the Tate in London – that will allow each museum access to the others' share.^[91]

Art market

Since the 1950s Lichtenstein's research paper has been exhibited in Novel York and elsewhere with Lion Castelli at his gallery jaunt at Castelli Graphics as be a triumph as with Ileana Sonnabend keep her gallery in Paris, trip at the Ferus Gallery, Way of being Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mary Boone, Brooke Alexanders Gallery, Carlebach, Rosa Esman, Marilyn Pearl, James Goodman, John Haler, Blum Helman, Hirschl & Adler, Phyllis Kind, Getler Pall, Condon Riley, 65 Thompson Street, Songster Solomon, and Sperone Westwater Galleries among others.

Leo Castelli Gathering represented Lichtenstein exclusively since 1962,^[9] when a solo show gross the artist sold out previously it opened.^[92]

Beginning in 1962, justness Leo Castelli Gallery, New Dynasty, held regular exhibitions of loftiness artist's work.^[93]Gagosian Gallery has archaic exhibiting work by Lichtenstein by reason of 1996.^[94]

Big Painting No.

6 (1965) became the highest priced Painter work in 1970.^[95] Like picture entire Brushstrokes series, the indirect route of the painting is authority process of Abstract Expressionist image via sweeping brushstrokes and drips, but the result of Lichtenstein's simplification that uses a Ben-Day dots background is a replica of the mechanical/industrial color print run reproduction.^[96]

Lichtenstein's painting Torpedo ...

Los! (1963) sold at Christie's ration $5.5 million in 1989, a lean sum at the time, manufacture him one of only trine living artists to have attentive such huge sums.^[69] In 2005, In the Car was vend for a then record $16.2m (£10m).

In 2010, Lichtenstein's cartoon-style 1964 painting Ohhh...Alright..., previously recognized by Steve Martin and afterward by Steve Wynn,^[97] was sell at a record US$42.6m (£26.7m) at a sale at Christie's in New York.^[98][99]

Based on unadorned 1961 William Overgard drawing edify a Steve Roper cartoon story,^[100] Lichtenstein's I Can See say publicly Whole Room...and There's Nobody difficulty It! (1961) depicts a fellow looking through a hole need a door.

It was sell by collector Courtney Sale Transport for $43 million, double its judge, at Christie's in New Royalty City in 2011; the seller's husband, Steve Ross had borrowed it at auction in 1988 for $2.1 million.^[101] The painting instructing four-foot by four-foot and obey in graphite and oil.^[102]

The comical painting Sleeping Girl (1964) suffer the loss of the collection of Beatrice person in charge Phillip Gersh established a original Lichtenstein record $44.8 million at Sotheby's in 2012.^[103][104]

In October 2012, Lichtenstein's painting Electric Cord (1962) was returned to Leo Castelli's woman Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, after receipt been missing for 42 majority.

Castelli had sent the portrait to an art restorer on the road to cleaning in January 1970, move never got it back. Flair died in 1999. In 2006, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation publicised an image of the characterization on its holiday greeting callingcard and asked the art grouping to help find it.^[105] Excellence painting was found in trig New York warehouse, after gaining been displayed in Bogota, Colombia.^[106]

In 2013, the painting Woman form a junction with Flowered Hat set another put in writing at $56.1 million as it was purchased by British jeweller Laurence Graff from American investor Ronald O.

Perelman.^[107]

This was topped ton 2015 by the sale put Nurse for 95.4 million dollars fall back a Christie's auction.^[108]

In January 2017, Masterpiece was sold for $165 million. The proceeds of this customers will be used to put in writing a fund for criminal injure reform.^[4]

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