In the 1960s, when Roy Lichtenstein began incorporating comic strips into his paintings, he framed the gesture as a form of ironic appropriation. His use of cartoons and comics was meant to ...
In this May 11, 2012 photo, Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, stands between his artworks “Cold Shoulder,” left, and “Masterpiece” at the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum ...
A once-in-a-generation collection of Roy Lichtenstein’s art is heading to auction in May, with Sotheby’s expecting the vibrant selection to pull in more than $35 million (€30.8 million). The sale will ...
One clue in the show is that just before he made the rag-painted abstractions, Lichtenstein made a series of drawings that combined free-flowing Abstract-Expressionist gestures with images of Bugs ...
If they look like giant comic book panels, well, that’s only because they are. Roy Lichenstein was a postmodernist and pop artist, but rather than painting Marilyn Monroe or soup cans, he was obsessed ...
Roy Lichtenstein sculpture arrives at NOMA Watch as art philanthropists Sydney and Walda Besthoff describe the Roy Lichtenstein sculpture that they bought for the New Orleans Museum of Art. The ...