Lichtenstein after 1965
1969 Red Barn by Lichtenstein
2020 SOLD for $ 4.5M including premium by Christie's
Link to catalogue.
1975 Back to the Futurism
2019 SOLD for £ 5M including premium
In 1961 Look Mickey abolished all prior definitions of art, highlighting the recuperation and abolishing the differentiation between the popular image and the art in museums and galleries. As early as 1962 Roy Lichtenstein adds to his repertoire some reinterpretations of Picasso's Cubist women.
Roy has become a great artist, since everyone tells him so. In 1969, at the age of 46, he has a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. All the greatest artists including Picasso wanted to take reference on their most famous predecessors. Roy does not lack wit : he will do the same. In 1972 he begins to paint still lifes.
In 1974 he retrieves the decomposition of movements by the Italian Futurists. Imitating an artwork created in 1913 by Carlo Carra, The Red horseman is a galloping horse with eight legs and two heads, mounted by a four-headed jockey in action.
On June 27 in London, Phillips sells The Conductor, oil and acrylic 188 x 137 cm painted by Roy Lichtenstein in 1975, lot 10 estimated £ 4M. This work is a very free adaptation of the movement of a ballerina painted in 1914 by Gino Severini and belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Roy was certainly interested in the fact that Severini was supposedly inspired by Seurat's Le Chahut painted in 1889-1890, showing the alignment of the legs of four French cancan dancers. He thus creates a relationship between post-Impressionist pointillism and his signature reproduction of Ben-Day dots, used in particular in The Conductor.
Roy continues to stroll in the history of art. In 1975 the purism of Le Corbusier and Ozenfant allows him to integrate into his art small objects of everyday life such as bottles or dice.
Roy has become a great artist, since everyone tells him so. In 1969, at the age of 46, he has a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. All the greatest artists including Picasso wanted to take reference on their most famous predecessors. Roy does not lack wit : he will do the same. In 1972 he begins to paint still lifes.
In 1974 he retrieves the decomposition of movements by the Italian Futurists. Imitating an artwork created in 1913 by Carlo Carra, The Red horseman is a galloping horse with eight legs and two heads, mounted by a four-headed jockey in action.
On June 27 in London, Phillips sells The Conductor, oil and acrylic 188 x 137 cm painted by Roy Lichtenstein in 1975, lot 10 estimated £ 4M. This work is a very free adaptation of the movement of a ballerina painted in 1914 by Gino Severini and belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Roy was certainly interested in the fact that Severini was supposedly inspired by Seurat's Le Chahut painted in 1889-1890, showing the alignment of the legs of four French cancan dancers. He thus creates a relationship between post-Impressionist pointillism and his signature reproduction of Ben-Day dots, used in particular in The Conductor.
Roy continues to stroll in the history of art. In 1975 the purism of Le Corbusier and Ozenfant allows him to integrate into his art small objects of everyday life such as bottles or dice.
1977 The Blond Profile
2017 SOLD for $ 24.5M including premium
Roy Lichtenstein creates a new conception of the image with his narrative themes inspired by comics, his text bubbles, his flat areas with sharp outlines and his printing dots. He explores the root nature of imagery by elevating to the rank of major art the disproportionately enlarged picture of a brushstroke or later by observing the abstract metamorphosis of a cow.
Early in his career Roy observes the freedom of composition brought by Picasso with his juxtapositions of perspectives and his effects of mirrors. Imitating a portrait of Dora Maar, Woman with Flowered Hat painted in 1963 was sold for $ 56M including premium by Christie's on May 15, 2013.
On November 16 in New York, Sotheby's sells Female Head, oil and acrylic on canvas 152 x 127 cm painted in 1977, lot 29 estimated $ 10M.
Roy interprets Picasso's signature double perspective with his naturalist style without reversing the binocular vision : the right nostril appears on the left. The face is truncated in an outline close to an oval as in an impossible mirror that does not appear. Roy does not forget the profile but processes it in a surrealist manner by the line of the blond hair on the left. This artwork thus becomes the triple head of a unique woman amalgamated in a single figure.
Early in his career Roy observes the freedom of composition brought by Picasso with his juxtapositions of perspectives and his effects of mirrors. Imitating a portrait of Dora Maar, Woman with Flowered Hat painted in 1963 was sold for $ 56M including premium by Christie's on May 15, 2013.
On November 16 in New York, Sotheby's sells Female Head, oil and acrylic on canvas 152 x 127 cm painted in 1977, lot 29 estimated $ 10M.
Roy interprets Picasso's signature double perspective with his naturalist style without reversing the binocular vision : the right nostril appears on the left. The face is truncated in an outline close to an oval as in an impossible mirror that does not appear. Roy does not forget the profile but processes it in a surrealist manner by the line of the blond hair on the left. This artwork thus becomes the triple head of a unique woman amalgamated in a single figure.
1977 Cup and Saucer, painted bronze by Lichtenstein
2021 SOLD for £ 1.13M including premium by Christie's
Link to catalogue.
1994 Intimate Music
2020 SOLD for $ 46M including premium
Roy Lichtenstein appropriates images edited or painted by others. By transforming them, he brings another meaning that can be the opposite. The enlargement from a comic maintains the simplicity of the lines which was important for the legibility of the tiny original. He reaches the basics of art, without verbiage and without losing his humor.
Roy also offers his vision of art history. He likes the pure lines of the naked bodies in La Danse by Matisse. Painted in 1974, Artist's Studio - The Dance exhibits that masterpiece of the other artist on the back wall, behind a big mess. On the right side, a truncated image shows some musical notes on a staff.
In 1994 Roy restarts one of his signature themes : the young woman copied from a comic panel, colored with dots that mimic printing patterns. Henceforth the woman is nude, sometimes in the presence of another naked woman, never with a man.
On July 10 in New York, Christie's sells as lot 58 Nude with Joyous Painting, oil and acrylic 178 x 135 cm painted in 1994. The press release of May 15 announces an estimate in the region of $ 30M. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.
In the comic book, the pretty blonde had a love sorrow. Now she is naked and the explanatory text is no longer available : she is simply waiting for something undefined which is probably not a partner. She may be finishing her washing after putting a headband.
The joyous painting announced by the title is the image of a musical staff in volutes, as in the pastiche of La Danse. This musical symbol brings a nice atmosphere of innocent intimacy.
Roy also offers his vision of art history. He likes the pure lines of the naked bodies in La Danse by Matisse. Painted in 1974, Artist's Studio - The Dance exhibits that masterpiece of the other artist on the back wall, behind a big mess. On the right side, a truncated image shows some musical notes on a staff.
In 1994 Roy restarts one of his signature themes : the young woman copied from a comic panel, colored with dots that mimic printing patterns. Henceforth the woman is nude, sometimes in the presence of another naked woman, never with a man.
On July 10 in New York, Christie's sells as lot 58 Nude with Joyous Painting, oil and acrylic 178 x 135 cm painted in 1994. The press release of May 15 announces an estimate in the region of $ 30M. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.
In the comic book, the pretty blonde had a love sorrow. Now she is naked and the explanatory text is no longer available : she is simply waiting for something undefined which is probably not a partner. She may be finishing her washing after putting a headband.
The joyous painting announced by the title is the image of a musical staff in volutes, as in the pastiche of La Danse. This musical symbol brings a nice atmosphere of innocent intimacy.
1994 The Privacy of the Modern Woman
2013 SOLD 23.6 M$ including premium
The world has changed in the three previous decades, in 1993, when Roy Lichtenstein focuses on the female nude. This new series of paintings, which unfortunately will be his last, is actually a remarkable synthesis of his career.
The guess by the observer of some relationship between the artist and the model is one of the strongest features in Roy's art. If the woman does not appear to be disturbed in her privacy, It is really a paradox because otherwise how would the artist be able to see her?
Roy had also interpreted the excessive comfort of bourgeois homes. It is logical and ironic that he got the idea to make them enlived by a naked woman.
These canvases of great size, larger than life, are using the technique of the artist with solid and dotted areas. The colors are unimportant on the condition of being bright, only the blond head is realistic.
The drawing is neat, without falling into the provocative eroticism of Wesselmann. Roy relies on previous images of his art improved by removing clothes and modernizing accessories.
The woman with the yellow flower is standing alone, concentrating on her phone call. Does the person on the other end of the line appreciate that she is nude? The heart of the flower is like a question mark. This canvas painted in 1994, 233 x 183 cm, is estimated $ 12M, for sale by Christie's in New York on May 15. Here is the link to the catalog.
On November 14, 2012, over the same lower estimate, Christie's sold $ 28M including premium a nude with a red shirt, 198 x 168 cm, painted in 1995.
POST SALE COMMENT
Compared with the Red shirt sold last year, the estimate was far too reasonable. The art market now welcomes the last paintings by Lichtenstein. The Nude with yellow flower was sold $ 23.6 million including premium.
The guess by the observer of some relationship between the artist and the model is one of the strongest features in Roy's art. If the woman does not appear to be disturbed in her privacy, It is really a paradox because otherwise how would the artist be able to see her?
Roy had also interpreted the excessive comfort of bourgeois homes. It is logical and ironic that he got the idea to make them enlived by a naked woman.
These canvases of great size, larger than life, are using the technique of the artist with solid and dotted areas. The colors are unimportant on the condition of being bright, only the blond head is realistic.
The drawing is neat, without falling into the provocative eroticism of Wesselmann. Roy relies on previous images of his art improved by removing clothes and modernizing accessories.
The woman with the yellow flower is standing alone, concentrating on her phone call. Does the person on the other end of the line appreciate that she is nude? The heart of the flower is like a question mark. This canvas painted in 1994, 233 x 183 cm, is estimated $ 12M, for sale by Christie's in New York on May 15. Here is the link to the catalog.
On November 14, 2012, over the same lower estimate, Christie's sold $ 28M including premium a nude with a red shirt, 198 x 168 cm, painted in 1995.
POST SALE COMMENT
Compared with the Red shirt sold last year, the estimate was far too reasonable. The art market now welcomes the last paintings by Lichtenstein. The Nude with yellow flower was sold $ 23.6 million including premium.
1994 Attack in a Mirror
2016 SOLD for $ 21.5M including premium
In the early 1960s women find another role to their own bodies. Partially or fully unveiled, it is no more only a call to the sexual partner but a symbol of a new freedom.
In this first phase of his career, Roy Lichtenstein shakes the traditional iconography but does not pay attention to the nude. Three decades later he retrieves his collection of magazines whose sentimental scenes had once served as his models. He now strips these young women in the intimate atmosphere of their modern apartment.
In his rich artistic vocabulary Roy loves to explore the theme of reflection that had inspired Velazquez and Manet before him. Nudes in Mirror, oil and acrylic on canvas 254 x 213 cm painted in 1994, offers troubling angles without indeed needing an erotic attitude.
The mirror occupies the entire field of the canvas and lets see the reflection of the blonde woman to the waist, much larger than life. The artist was an intruder because he occupied the physical position of that woman facing the mirror in the nude. For the same reason the viewer loses his own identity. A wide diagonal bar and a secondary image that may be from the same woman bring an impossible geometry worthy of Escher.
An artist is successful when his work arouses passions. In 2005 Nudes in Mirror was slashed in four large cuts from a screwdriver during an exhibition in Austria. The canvas has been repaired. It is for sale by Phillips in New York on November 16, lot 15. After such a history the estimate is difficult to establish and the auction house did not publish it.
In this first phase of his career, Roy Lichtenstein shakes the traditional iconography but does not pay attention to the nude. Three decades later he retrieves his collection of magazines whose sentimental scenes had once served as his models. He now strips these young women in the intimate atmosphere of their modern apartment.
In his rich artistic vocabulary Roy loves to explore the theme of reflection that had inspired Velazquez and Manet before him. Nudes in Mirror, oil and acrylic on canvas 254 x 213 cm painted in 1994, offers troubling angles without indeed needing an erotic attitude.
The mirror occupies the entire field of the canvas and lets see the reflection of the blonde woman to the waist, much larger than life. The artist was an intruder because he occupied the physical position of that woman facing the mirror in the nude. For the same reason the viewer loses his own identity. A wide diagonal bar and a secondary image that may be from the same woman bring an impossible geometry worthy of Escher.
An artist is successful when his work arouses passions. In 2005 Nudes in Mirror was slashed in four large cuts from a screwdriver during an exhibition in Austria. The canvas has been repaired. It is for sale by Phillips in New York on November 16, lot 15. After such a history the estimate is difficult to establish and the auction house did not publish it.
1994 Nude with Blue Hair by Lichtenstein
2014 SOLD for $ 580K including premium by Christie's
1994 The Blonde with Blue Hair
2016 SOLD for $ 450K including premium
From 1993 the figures of blonde women mark both the synthesis and the ultimate development in the art of Roy Lichtenstein.
Same as in his beginnings he uses images taken from comic books and dots imitating the printing pattern. Nudity is new in his art, suitable to confront the wave of the body shape with a rigorous geometric construction.
These theoretical advances provide as usual an opportunity for printed editions. In association with Tyler Graphics in New York, the artist uses the technique of relief print in which a mechanical preparation of the paper defines depressed areas that will be saved from ink.
The best print of this series is a nude in bust length with blue hair done in 1994 in two states of the same size: 130 x 80 cm image on 147 x 95 cm sheet. It is gradually becoming one of the icons of modern engraving and its prices at auction rise steadily.
The state I is printed in 10 copies plus 6 artist's proofs. The lines are blue and the flatness of the hair is not colored. Serial number 6/10 was sold for $ 320K including premium by Christie's on October 30, 2013.
In the other state the lines are black. The uniformly sky blue hair draws the attention to the head rather than to the breasts, supporting the intention of the artist to provide an image of the modern young woman. This state is edited in 40 copies plus 12 artist's proofs.
The number 23/40 was sold for $ 580K including premium by Christie's on October 24, 2014 over a lower estimate of $ 150K. The 16/40 is estimated $ 300K for sale by Sotheby's in New York on April 20, lot 27.
Same as in his beginnings he uses images taken from comic books and dots imitating the printing pattern. Nudity is new in his art, suitable to confront the wave of the body shape with a rigorous geometric construction.
These theoretical advances provide as usual an opportunity for printed editions. In association with Tyler Graphics in New York, the artist uses the technique of relief print in which a mechanical preparation of the paper defines depressed areas that will be saved from ink.
The best print of this series is a nude in bust length with blue hair done in 1994 in two states of the same size: 130 x 80 cm image on 147 x 95 cm sheet. It is gradually becoming one of the icons of modern engraving and its prices at auction rise steadily.
The state I is printed in 10 copies plus 6 artist's proofs. The lines are blue and the flatness of the hair is not colored. Serial number 6/10 was sold for $ 320K including premium by Christie's on October 30, 2013.
In the other state the lines are black. The uniformly sky blue hair draws the attention to the head rather than to the breasts, supporting the intention of the artist to provide an image of the modern young woman. This state is edited in 40 copies plus 12 artist's proofs.
The number 23/40 was sold for $ 580K including premium by Christie's on October 24, 2014 over a lower estimate of $ 150K. The 16/40 is estimated $ 300K for sale by Sotheby's in New York on April 20, lot 27.
1995 Nude with Red Shirt by Lichtenstein
2012 SOLD for $ 28M including premium by Christie's
narrated in 2020
In 1993 Roy Lichtenstein reinterpreted the comics that had made his glory thirty years earlier. The evolution of manners and the new freedom acquired and claimed by young women allow him to strip them to the nude.
In the first works in the series, exhibited by Castelli in November 1994, the aesthetics of voluptuous curves often take precedence over narration. Amorous thoughts already appear in some scenes.
In the Nude with Yellow Flower, sold for $ 23.6M including premium by Christie's on May 15, 2013, the young woman phones while preparing a flower for her interlocutor. In the 1960s comics she wore a swimsuit.
Nude with Red Shirt, oil and acrylic on canvas 198 x 168 cm painted in 1995, was sold for $ 28M including premium by Christie's on November 14, 2012, lot 39.
In her bedroom, the young blonde slips her shirt over her shoulders. The viewer's attention is focused on the bare skin. In the original image, she wore underpants. The narrative figures are only seen at second reading.
The left edge of the image is broken by the hair of a woman. What is she doing ? Roy does not give his solution but in the original comic book she was the sister. The framed portrait of a young man on the nightstand leads to conclude that the main character is heterosexual.
In the following year the women are more overtly exciting. A Seductive Girl was sold for $ 31.5M including premium by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
In the first works in the series, exhibited by Castelli in November 1994, the aesthetics of voluptuous curves often take precedence over narration. Amorous thoughts already appear in some scenes.
In the Nude with Yellow Flower, sold for $ 23.6M including premium by Christie's on May 15, 2013, the young woman phones while preparing a flower for her interlocutor. In the 1960s comics she wore a swimsuit.
Nude with Red Shirt, oil and acrylic on canvas 198 x 168 cm painted in 1995, was sold for $ 28M including premium by Christie's on November 14, 2012, lot 39.
In her bedroom, the young blonde slips her shirt over her shoulders. The viewer's attention is focused on the bare skin. In the original image, she wore underpants. The narrative figures are only seen at second reading.
The left edge of the image is broken by the hair of a woman. What is she doing ? Roy does not give his solution but in the original comic book she was the sister. The framed portrait of a young man on the nightstand leads to conclude that the main character is heterosexual.
In the following year the women are more overtly exciting. A Seductive Girl was sold for $ 31.5M including premium by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
1995 Hope and Jealousy of the Naked Woman
2017 SOLD for $ 24M including premium
An often iconoclastic theorist in many genres of painting, Roy Lichtenstein appreciates when turning 70 years old that the viewer wants nude women. He observes: "If you draw three lines that look like a nude, people see a nude".
To join this everlasting theme of art, he undresses the young women from the sentimental stories of his old magazines. In a first phase he chooses apartment scenes with one or two girls in their usual occupations. The condition of women has changed, fortunately, and these scenes which once would have been risqué are no longer shocking.
The old artist then takes a step forward towards eroticism. He reads again a sentimental story published in 1964 in Heart Throbs magazine. His young woman is the conformal copy of the original blonde except that now she is naked. He removes the texts which explained too directly her dramas.
On May 18 in New York, Sotheby's sells at lot 8 an oil and acrylic on canvas 148 x 152 cm painted in 1995. The press release of April 10 announces an estimate in the region of $ 20M.
In the comic book the woman is sitting and leaning on the edge of the bed and dreams of her success : Danny likes me; He likes me for me ; He does not know I can be beautiful. Once stripped by Roy she retains from the original version a too thick and too red mouth assessing that despite her perfect body her sex appeal is vulgar.
This painting is named Nude sunbathing, a surprising title since the original indoor scene is not contradicted in the nude version. Tentatively Roy was looking for an occupational excuse to justify the increasing eroticism of his art.
In the following year the taboos are finally removed with a charming image re-appropriated from further in the same story. In the comics the young woman in bed cannot fall asleep because her Danny is in love with another girl. Her gaze is languid. Roy takes off her nightgown : Seductive Girl was sold for $ 31.5M including premium by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
Please watch the video shared by Sotheby's.
To join this everlasting theme of art, he undresses the young women from the sentimental stories of his old magazines. In a first phase he chooses apartment scenes with one or two girls in their usual occupations. The condition of women has changed, fortunately, and these scenes which once would have been risqué are no longer shocking.
The old artist then takes a step forward towards eroticism. He reads again a sentimental story published in 1964 in Heart Throbs magazine. His young woman is the conformal copy of the original blonde except that now she is naked. He removes the texts which explained too directly her dramas.
On May 18 in New York, Sotheby's sells at lot 8 an oil and acrylic on canvas 148 x 152 cm painted in 1995. The press release of April 10 announces an estimate in the region of $ 20M.
In the comic book the woman is sitting and leaning on the edge of the bed and dreams of her success : Danny likes me; He likes me for me ; He does not know I can be beautiful. Once stripped by Roy she retains from the original version a too thick and too red mouth assessing that despite her perfect body her sex appeal is vulgar.
This painting is named Nude sunbathing, a surprising title since the original indoor scene is not contradicted in the nude version. Tentatively Roy was looking for an occupational excuse to justify the increasing eroticism of his art.
In the following year the taboos are finally removed with a charming image re-appropriated from further in the same story. In the comics the young woman in bed cannot fall asleep because her Danny is in love with another girl. Her gaze is languid. Roy takes off her nightgown : Seductive Girl was sold for $ 31.5M including premium by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
Please watch the video shared by Sotheby's.
1996 A Nice Blonde with the Old Roy
2013 SOLD 31.5 M$ including premium
In 1993, when Roy Lichtenstein focuses on the female nude, he actually starts two different lines of images. In one of them, the woman is nude in her apartment, busy in her daily activities. The other set shows her in bust, centered in a bold close-up composition where the frame is cutting hair, arms and lower breast.
Same as Munch, Lichtenstein is a great picture maker who prepares prints. Prints from his later career, after almost twenty years, regularly appear on the market. A printed copy of the 1994 nude with blue hair, 130 x 80 cm, was sold for $ 320K including premium by Christie's on October 30, 2013.
The paintings on this theme are still rare at auction. A Seductive Girl painted on canvas in 1996, 127 x 183 cm, is estimated $ 22M , for sale by Christie's in New York on November 12.
This pretty blonde on her bed is a sister of the young women painted by Roy thirty years earlier after copying images in the comic books. Her texture is also composed of colored dots more or less densely arranged for bringing the perspective.
Unlike her former friends, she is naked. As usual with Roy, this modern young woman establishes a communication with the viewer, but for once she is not troubled but troubling. She gently seduces the old Roy.
This creative impulse was unfortunately stopped in the following year by the sudden death of Roy, aged 74.
POST SALE COMMENT
This great example of creativity at the end of Lichtenstein's career was sold for $ 31.5 million including premium.
Same as Munch, Lichtenstein is a great picture maker who prepares prints. Prints from his later career, after almost twenty years, regularly appear on the market. A printed copy of the 1994 nude with blue hair, 130 x 80 cm, was sold for $ 320K including premium by Christie's on October 30, 2013.
The paintings on this theme are still rare at auction. A Seductive Girl painted on canvas in 1996, 127 x 183 cm, is estimated $ 22M , for sale by Christie's in New York on November 12.
This pretty blonde on her bed is a sister of the young women painted by Roy thirty years earlier after copying images in the comic books. Her texture is also composed of colored dots more or less densely arranged for bringing the perspective.
Unlike her former friends, she is naked. As usual with Roy, this modern young woman establishes a communication with the viewer, but for once she is not troubled but troubling. She gently seduces the old Roy.
This creative impulse was unfortunately stopped in the following year by the sudden death of Roy, aged 74.
POST SALE COMMENT
This great example of creativity at the end of Lichtenstein's career was sold for $ 31.5 million including premium.
1996 The Far Side of the Blonde
2017 SOLD for $ 10.3M including premium
Unlike Warhol, Lichtenstein does not multiply images for flooding the world under his own vision. He is instead an explorer of the language and techniques of art and his main guideline seems mostly to have rejected the preconceived ideas.
Woman: Sunlight, Moonlight is a flat bust in painted bronze 104 cm high edited in 1996 in six copies and an artist proof. Playing with the dualities of painting or sculpture, of flat or three-dimensional, of positive or negative image, of metal and hole, this figure does not resemble either a bust or a bronze.
He reuses the picture of the young blonde who was the main female character of the Secret Heart comic book and of his masterpieces of the 1960s. This larger-than-life sculpture is cut out around the woman's head simulating on each side the same image from a magazine with clearly visible benday dots. The expression of expectation is the same, with closed eyes and half open red mouth.
However the two heads look very different. The Sun side carries the usual yellow hair and red dots. The Moon side appears darker with its blue hair and dots.
The artist's proof was offered in 2014 by the artist's deceased estate to the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation which now offers it to the benefit of the projects of its study center. It will be sold by Phillips in New York on May 18, lot 6. The April 26 press release announces an estimate in excess of $ 10M.
Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
Woman: Sunlight, Moonlight is a flat bust in painted bronze 104 cm high edited in 1996 in six copies and an artist proof. Playing with the dualities of painting or sculpture, of flat or three-dimensional, of positive or negative image, of metal and hole, this figure does not resemble either a bust or a bronze.
He reuses the picture of the young blonde who was the main female character of the Secret Heart comic book and of his masterpieces of the 1960s. This larger-than-life sculpture is cut out around the woman's head simulating on each side the same image from a magazine with clearly visible benday dots. The expression of expectation is the same, with closed eyes and half open red mouth.
However the two heads look very different. The Sun side carries the usual yellow hair and red dots. The Moon side appears darker with its blue hair and dots.
The artist's proof was offered in 2014 by the artist's deceased estate to the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation which now offers it to the benefit of the projects of its study center. It will be sold by Phillips in New York on May 18, lot 6. The April 26 press release announces an estimate in excess of $ 10M.
Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
