Roy Lichtenstein

American, 1923 - 1997

A key figure in the Pop art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early 1960s, and eventually encompassing those of everyday objects, artistic styles, and art history itself.

During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". Lichtenstein later recalled that 1961 marked a break with both his own abstract style and “prevailing taste” in the art world. “Although almost anything seemed to be fair subject matter for art,” he recalled, “commercial art and particularly cartooning were not considered to be among those possibilities.”

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Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965

Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965

signed and numbered in pencil
Screenprint on paper
90.5 x 64.5 cm

Artworks

Divided Sea and Sky, 1965

Divided Sea and Sky, 1965

plastic and magna on board
67 x 55 cm
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Imperfect Diptych, 1988

Imperfect Diptych, 1988

woodcut, screenprint and collage on paper
147 cm x 238 cm
edition of 45
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Nympheas, 1994

Nympheas, 1994

lithograph, woodcut and linocut on paper
80 cm x 102 cm
edition of 100
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Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965

Sweet Dreams Baby!, 1965

screenprint on paper
90.5 x 64.9

Sold to a Dutch private collector
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