Description

Roy Lichtenstein Original Ink & Oil – Dot Painting

‘Grrrrrrr’ ink and oil painting 1965

On special cartonpaper

Specifications

✓ Size : 28 x 22,5 cm

✓ Handsigned on the right-hand bottom corner

✓ Absolute mint condition

✓ Private Estate Collection

In addition to the large painting itself (measuring 68 in × 56.125 in – 172.7 cm × 142.6 cm bequeathed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection from Lichtenstein’s estate), Lichtenstein produced a small 5.75 in × 4.5 in (14.6 cm × 11.4 cm) graphite on paper study and several color studies in different sizes. The item on sale is one of them.

Information on Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others. He became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody.  Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described Pop Art as, “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”.

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