Roy Lichtenstein – hand-signed editions and rarities from the king of Pop Art
At the beginning of the 1960s, Lichtenstein developed his typical style: rough grids and excerpts from the banal world of consumerism, comics and advertising. The enlargement and simplification of familiar objects was intended to encourage a new way of seeing. Lichtenstein’s works are a central component in the largest museums in the world. His pictures and screen-printed editions constantly achieve new record results at auctions. Like Picasso and Chagall, there is also a separate catalog raisonné for his exhibition posters, which, like his graphics, were mostly produced as high-quality screen prints. Many of them were hand-signed by Lichtenstein at book signings at openings.
Exhibitions of recent years
2024:
– Roy Lichtenstein – A Centennial Exhibition, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2023:
– Roy Lichtenstein – The Sixties and the history of international Pop Art, Desenzano Castle, Lake Garda, Italy
– Lichtenstein Remembered, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2022:
– Roy Lichtenstein. History of Formation, 1948-1960, Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2021:
– Frosts and Colds. Paintings of the USA and the USSR 1960-1990 from the Ludwig Collection, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, Germany
– Wunderland, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
– American Art 1961-2001, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2020:
– Roy Lichtenstein, Kunstmuseum Brod, Los Angeles, USA
– The Door to the Future. Art and Design from 1880 to Today, Städtisches Museum Stedelijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
– Pop Art on Paper. From Warhol to Liechtenstein, Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
2019:
– Touch of Color: Pastels from the Washington National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., USA
– Roy Lichtenstein, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York in 1923, was, alongside Andy Warhol, the most famous representative of Pop Art. He became famous for his large-scale implementation of comic drawings, enlarging the halftone dots typical of newspaper offset printing and combining them with flat hard edge painting to create his own stylistic device. Unlike Warhol, he did not use screen printing for his canvas paintings, but painted classically by hand. His role models were Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Piet Mondrian, to whom he also dedicated famous homages.
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