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Sotheby’s Upcoming Roy Lichtenstein Auction Goes Beyond Pop Art

There’s one piece in the range of 43 Roy Lichtenstein works up for auction at Sotheby’s that feels out of place. Among the thousands of Ben Day dots, exacting lines, and clear subjects associated ...
Artnet

Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein Is Getting a Retrospective at the Whitney—and a Stamp of Approval From the USPS, Too

In honor of the 100th birthday of Roy Lichtenstein this year, the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it will hold a retrospective of the Pop art great in 2026. The news coincides with ...
Artnet

Was Roy Lichtenstein an Appropriation Artist or Plagiarist? A New Documentary Probes the Ethics of His Multimillion-Dollar Comic Art Empire

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 ...
Yahoo

Roy Lichtenstein pop art masterpieces head to auction for the first time

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 ...