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Roy Lichtenstein was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Albertina Museum in Vienna. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Scottish National Gallery have featured Roy Lichtenstein's work in the past.Roy Lichtenstein's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 95,365,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 95,365,000 USD for Nurse, sold at Christie's New York in 2015. Roy Lichtenstein has been featured in articles for ArtDependence Magazine, ArtDaily and ArtsJournal. The most recent article is Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024 written for Apollo in April 2024. The artist died in 1997.
‘The Poussins are a real national object,’ declared Joshua Reynolds in 1785, referring to the series of seven religious scenes by Nicolas Poussin that had recently arrived on British shores.
Joanne Heyler, Founding Director of The Broad, announced plans for an expansion that will build upon the success of The Broad’s first decade by providing enhanced public access...
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..Lichtenstein is an artist whose work is widely known, reproduced, copied, and parodied—he is an artist that we seem to know well but in fact the true diversity and complexity of his oeuvre is little understood...
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..Conceived independently from Lichtenstein's paintings, these drawings recast tawdry illustrations from packaging, newspaper ads, and comic books into works of striking visual intensity, echoing the clean-edge...
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..Plucking stylistic strings while leaving the raw emotional tone of the movement behind, Lichtenstein's use of Expressionism and other pivotal moments in art history called all remaining boundaries into...
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..While the purpose of the commercial image was to efficiently depict, Lichtenstein’s intent was to make it “intensely unified.”[1] A formal unity not for its own sake, but one that served as an active counterpoint...
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