{{Short description|American pop artist (1923–1997)}} {{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox artist | name = Roy Lichtenstein | image = Roy Lichtenstein, painter 1969 (cropped).jpg | caption = Lichtenstein in 1969 | birth_name = Roy Fox Lichtenstein | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1923|10|27|}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1997|9|29|1923|10|27}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | known_for = {{hlist|Painting|sculpture|printmaking}} | education = {{ubl | Timothy Dwight School | Parsons School of Design<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.roylichtenstein.com/|title=Roy Lichtenstein Biography |access-date=September 27, 2022|publisher=roylichtenstein.com/}}</ref> }} | alma_mater = Ohio State University | movement = Pop art | patrons = Gunter Sachs | works = {{ubl | ''Look Mickey'' (1961) |''Brattata'' (1962) | ''Drowning Girl'' (1963) | ''In the Car'' (1963) | ''Whaam!'' (1963) | ''Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...'' (1964) | ''Girl with Hair Ribbon'' (1965) | ''Brushstrokes'' (1965) }} | awards = National Medal of Arts (1994) | spouse = {{ubl | {{marriage|Isabel Wilson|1949|1965|end=divorced}} | {{marriage|Dorothy Herzka|1968}} }} | children = 2, including Mitchell }}

'''Roy Fox Lichtenstein'''<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɪ|k|t|ən|ˌ|s|t|aɪ|n}} {{respell|LIK|tən|STYN}}; October{{nbsp}}27, 1923{{snd}}September{{nbsp}}29, 1997) was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, he is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Lichtenstein's art is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and he remains one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the 20th century.

Emerging in the early 1960s, Lichtenstein gained international recognition for works that employed bold outlines, flat colors, and his signature use of Ben-Day dots—a mechanical printing technique he meticulously replicated by hand. Through this approach, Lichtenstein challenged traditional distinctions between "high" art and popular culture, transforming seemingly banal source material into monumental, self-aware compositions. His work often explored themes of romance, war, consumerism, and art itself, frequently incorporating irony and detachment to comment on modern visual culture.

Beyond his comic-inspired paintings, Lichtenstein's wide-ranging career included sculpture, murals, prints, and reinterpretations of canonical works by artists such as Picasso, Monet, and Matisse. His best-known works include ''Look Mickey'' (1961), ''Whaam!'' (1963), and ''Drowning Girl'' (1963), which helped define his visual language and establish Pop Art as a dominant movement of the era.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/09/21/pop-art-pioneer-lichtenstein-in-tate-modern-retrospective/ |title=Pop art pioneer Lichtenstein in Tate Modern retrospective|access-date=June 8, 2013|date=September 21, 2012|work=Chicago Tribune|last=Hoang|first=Li-mei}}</ref> Lichtenstein's most expensive work, ''Masterpiece'' (1962), sold privately in 2017 for a reported $165 million.<ref name="Masterpiece">{{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/arts/design/agnes-gund-sells-a-lichtenstein-to-start-criminal-justice-fund.html |title=Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund |work=The New York Times |date=June 11, 2017 |access-date=June 13, 2017 }}</ref>

Lichtenstein received numerous accolades during his career, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979 and the National Medal of Arts in 1995. Lichtenstein also received several Honorary Doctorates in Fine Art from institutions, including California Institute of the Arts, Ohio State University, and George Washington University.

==Early life and education== Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, into an upper middle class German-Jewish family in New York City.<ref name="rlf-chronology">{{cite web|url=http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/lfchron1.htm |title=The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation – Chronology |access-date=November 12, 2007 |first=Clare |last=Bell |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606071341/http://lichtensteinfoundation.org/lfchron1.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lichtenstein-roy.htm|title=Roy Lichtenstein Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works|work=The Art Story}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/99986/why-pop-art-is-jewish|title=Roy Lichtenstein at the Art Institute of Chicago: Pop Art as an Affront to WASPy Decorum|work=Tablet Magazine|date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, and his mother, Beatrice (née Werner), was a homemaker.<ref name="Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies">Christopher Knight (September 30, 1997), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-30-mn-37730-story.html Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies] ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> Lichtenstein was raised on New York City's Upper West Side and attended public school until he was 12. Lichtenstein then attended New York's Dwight School, graduating in 1940. He first became interested in art and design as a hobby, through school.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson">{{harvnb|Hendrickson|1988|p=94}}</ref> Lichtenstein was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> He frequently drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> In 1939, his last year of high school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York, where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh.<ref name="rlf-Coplans30">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972 |p = 30 }}</ref>

Lichtenstein then left New York to study at Ohio State University, which offered studio courses and a degree in fine arts.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> His studies were interrupted by a three-year stint in the Army during and after World War II between 1943 and 1946.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> After being in training programs for languages, engineering in the Army Specialized Training Program,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-roy-lichtenstein-11994 | title=Oral history interview with Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 November 15-1964 January 15 {{pipe}} Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution }}</ref> and pilot training, all of which were cancelled, Lichtenstein served as an orderly, draftsman, and artist.<ref name="rlf-chronology" />

Lichtenstein returned home to visit his dying father and was discharged from the Army with eligibility for the G.I. Bill.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> Lichtenstein returned to studies in Ohio under the supervision of one of his teachers, Hoyt L. Sherman, who is widely regarded to have had a significant impact on his future work (Lichtenstein would later name a new studio he funded at OSU as the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center).<ref>{{cite web | publisher = The Ohio State University | title = Sculpture. Facilities | url= http://art.osu.edu/?p=ds_facilities | access-date =November 12, 2007}}</ref>

Lichtenstein entered the graduate program at Ohio State University and was hired as an art instructor, a post he held on and off for the next 10 years. In 1949, Lichtenstein earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University.

== Career == [[File:Roy Lichtenstein, Cap de Barcelona 08019-1140-1 DSC09566.jpg|thumb|''Cap de Barcelona'', 1992 sculpture, mixed media, Barcelona]]

=== Early career and Abstract Expressionism === In 1951, Lichtenstein had his first solo exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /><ref name="rlf-exhibitions">{{cite web |url = http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/solexint.htm |title = Roy Lichtenstein Exhibitions..... 1946–2009 |access-date = December 8, 2009 |first = Clare |last = Bell |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100120010003/http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/solexint.htm |archive-date = January 20, 2010 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> He moved to Cleveland that same year, where he remained for six years, although Lichtenstein frequently traveled back to New York. During this time, he undertook jobs as varied as a draftsman to a window decorator in between periods of painting.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> Lichtenstein's work at this time fluctuated between Cubism and Expressionism.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> In 1954, his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born. His second son, Mitchell Lichtenstein, was born two years later.<ref name="rlf-Coplans31">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972|p=31 }}</ref>

In 1957, Lichtenstein moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again.<ref name="rlf-Coplans">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972|loc=Interviews, pp. 55, 30, 31}}</ref> It was at this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, being a late convert to this style of painting.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson9495">{{harvnb| Hendrickson | 1988 | pp= 94, 95 }}</ref> Lichtenstein began teaching in upstate New York at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. Around this time, he began to incorporate hidden images of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny into his abstract works.<ref name="rlf-Lobel">{{harvnb|Lobel|2002|pp=32–33}}</ref>

=== Breakthrough and Pop Art === In 1960, Lichtenstein started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university. This environment helped reignite Lichtenstein's interest in Proto-pop imagery.<ref name="rlf-chronology"/> In 1961, he began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. This phase would continue to 1965, and included the use of advertising imagery suggesting consumerism and homemaking.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> Lichtenstein's first work to feature the large-scale use of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was ''Look Mickey'' (1961, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).<ref name="rlf-Alloway13">{{harvnb|Alloway|1983| p = 13}}</ref> This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said; "I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?"<ref name="Great-20th-Century-Artists">{{harvnb|Lucie-Smith | 1999}}</ref> That same year, Lichtenstein produced six other works with recognizable characters from gum wrappers and cartoons.<ref name="rlf-Lobel"/>

In 1961, Leo Castelli started displaying Lichtenstein's work at his gallery in New York. Lichtenstein had his first one-man show at the Castelli gallery in 1962; the entire collection was bought by influential collectors before the show even opened.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> A group of paintings produced between 1961 and 1962 focused on solitary household objects such as sneakers, hot dogs, and golf balls.<ref>[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5074051 Roy Lichtenstein, ''The Ring'' (1962)] Christie's Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, May 13, 2008.</ref> In September 1963, Lichtenstein took a leave of absence from his teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers.<ref>{{harvnb|Marter|1999|p=37}}</ref>

Lichtenstein's works were inspired by comics featuring war and romantic stories. "At that time," he later recounted, "I was interested in anything I could use as a subject that was emotionally strong – usually love, war, or something that was highly charged and emotional subject matter to be opposite to the removed and deliberate painting techniques".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://artdependence.com/articles/christies-to-offer-kiss-iii-by-roy-lichtenstein/ |title=ArtDependence {{!}} Christie's to Offer Kiss III by Roy Lichtenstein |last=ArtDependence |website=artdependence.com |language=en |access-date=2019-11-09 |archive-date=2019-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109203702/https://artdependence.com/articles/christies-to-offer-kiss-iii-by-roy-lichtenstein/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> His artwork was considered to be "disruptive".<ref name="forward.com">{{cite web |author=Kaminer, Michael |date=18 October 2016 |title=How Jewish Comic Book Heroes Inspired Roy Lichtenstein's Pop Art |url=https://forward.com/culture/352183/how-jewish-comic-book-heroes-inspired-roy-lichtensteins-pop-art/ |accessdate=21 April 2024 |work=forward.com |publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward |quote='Lichtenstein's story, in many ways, is an assimilation story,' said Bethany Montagano, curator of "Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in LA." 'Lichtenstein didn't speak often about being Jewish. There was just one interview in the 1960s where he spoke about his maternal grandfather who went to temple and spoke Hebrew.'}}</ref> Lichtenstein described Pop Art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".<ref name="rlf-Coplans" /> It was at this time that Lichtenstein began to find fame not just in America but worldwide. He moved back to New York to be at the center of the art scene and resigned from Rutgers University in 1964 to concentrate on his painting.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson96">{{harvnb|Hendrickson |1988| p= 96 }}</ref> Lichtenstein used oil and Magna (early acrylic) paint in his best known works, such as ''Drowning Girl'' (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics' ''Secret Hearts'' No. 83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo. (''Drowning Girl'' now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson31">{{harvnb|Hendrickson| 1988| p= 31 }}</ref>) ''Drowning Girl'' also features thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots, as if created by photographic reproduction. Of his own work, Lichtenstein would say that the Abstract Expressionists "put things down on the canvas and responded to what they had done, to the color positions and sizes. My style looks completely different, but the nature of putting down lines pretty much is the same; mine just don't come out looking calligraphic, like Pollock's or Kline's."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/30/arts/roy-lichtenstein-pop-master-dies-at-73.html |title=Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Master, Dies at 73 |first=Michael |last=Kimmelman |date=September 30, 1997 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 12, 2007 }}</ref>

Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, Lichtenstein's work tackled the way in which the mass media portrays them. However, he would never take himself too seriously, saying: "I think my work is different from comic strips – but I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that whatever is meant by it is important to art".<ref name="rlf-Coplans54">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972| p = 54 }}</ref> When Lichtenstein's work was first exhibited, many art critics of the time challenged its originality. His work was harshly criticized as vulgar and empty. The title of a ''Life'' magazine article in 1964 asked, "Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?"<ref>{{cite news|first=Carol |last=Vogel |date=April 5, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/a-new-traveling-show-of-lichtenstein-works.html |title=A New Traveling Show of Lichtenstein Works|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Lichtenstein responded to such claims by offering responses such as the following: "The closer my work is to the original, the more threatening and critical the content. However, my work is entirely transformed in that my purpose and perception are entirely different. I think my paintings are critically transformed, but it would be difficult to prove it by any rational line of argument."<ref name="rlf-Coplans52">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972| p = 52 }}</ref> He discussed experiencing this heavy criticism in an interview with April Bernard and Mimi Thompson in 1986. Suggesting that it was at times difficult to be criticized, Lichtenstein said, "I don't doubt when I'm actually painting, it's the criticism that makes you wonder, it does."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bernard |first1=April |last2=Thompson |first2=Mimi |url=http://bombsite.com/issues/14/articles/726 |title=Roy Lichtenstein |magazine=BOMB Magazine|date=Winter 1986|access-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720131625/http://bombsite.com/issues/14/articles/726 |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lichtenstein's celebrated image ''Whaam!'' (1963) depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an enemy plane, with a red-and-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the onomatopoeic lettering ''"Whaam!"'' and the boxed caption ''"I pressed the fire control ... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky ..."'' This diptych is large in scale, measuring 1.7 x 4.0 m (5&nbsp;ft 7 in x 13&nbsp;ft 4 in).<ref name=Tate_Whaam>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=8782 |work=Tate Collection |title=Whaam! |first=Roy |last=Lichtenstein |access-date=January 27, 2008 }}</ref> ''Whaam'' follows the comic strip-based themes of some of his previous paintings and is part of a body of war-themed work created between 1962 and 1964. It is one of his two notable large war-themed paintings. It was purchased by the Tate Gallery in 1966, after being exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1963, and (now at the Tate Modern) has remained in their collection ever since. In 1968, the Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher acquired several major works by Lichtenstein, such as ''Nurse'' (1964), ''Compositions I'' (1964), ''We rose up slowly'' (1964) and ''Yellow and Green Brushstrokes'' (1966). After being on loan at the Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt for several years, the founding director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Peter Iden, was able to acquire a total of 87 works<ref>Iden, Peter, Lauter, Rolf (ed.), ''Bilder für Frankfurt'', Bestandskatalog Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 1985, cover image, pp 82–83, 176–178. {{ISBN|978-3-7913-0702-2}}.</ref> from the Ströher collection<ref>Lauter, Rolf. ''Das Museum für Moderne Kunst und die Sammlung Ströher. Zur Geschichte einer Privatsammlung'', MMK in der Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main 1994, {{ISBN|3-7973-0585-0}}</ref> in 1981, primarily American Pop Art and Minimal Art for the museum under construction until 1991.<ref name="mmk_stroeher">{{cite web | url=https://collection.mmk.art/en/collection-stroeher/ | title=Collection Ströher | publisher=MUSEUM<sup>MMK</sup> für Moderne Kunst | work=mmk.art | accessdate=21 April 2024 | quote=The eighty-seven works from the former collection of Karl Ströher, an industrialist of Darmstadt, form the core of the museum's collection. Acquired by the city of Frankfurt in 1981‒82, they were a determining factor in the founding of the MMK. Ströher's collection was in turn based on the former collection of the New York insurance broker Leon Kraushar. Most of the works date from the 1960s and represent the American Pop Art and Minimalist currents. They include workgroups by such artists as Carl Andre, Francis Bacon, Walter De Maria, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly or Andy Warhol, as well as German artists of the period, among them Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Franz Erhard Walther.}}</ref>

Lichtenstein began experimenting with sculpture around 1964, demonstrating a knack for the form that was at odds with the insistent flatness of his paintings. For ''Head of Girl'' (1964), and ''Head with Red Shadow'' (1965), Lichtenstein collaborated with a ceramicist who sculpted the form of the head out of clay. He then applied a glaze to create the same sort of graphic motifs that he used in his paintings; the application of black lines and Ben-Day dots to three-dimensional objects resulted in a flattening of the form.<ref>Lucy Davies (November 17, 2008), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3563299/Roy-Lichtenstein-a-new-dimension-in-art.html# Roy Lichtenstein: a new dimension in art] ''The Daily Telegraph''.</ref>

=== Comic book imagery === Most of Lichtenstein's best-known works are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965, though he would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades. These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely received any credit. Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation, contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy."<ref name="boston">{{cite news | last = Beam | first = Alex | title = Lichtenstein: creator or copycat? |work=Boston Globe | date = October 18, 2006 | url = http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/10/18/lichtenstein_creator_or_copycat/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061029073415/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/10/18/lichtenstein_creator_or_copycat/ | url-status = live | archive-date = October 29, 2006 | access-date =July 16, 2007 }}</ref> However, some<ref name=publishersweekly_spiegelman>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/406197-Spiegelman_Goes_to_College.php |work=Publishers Weekly |title=Art Spiegelman Goes to College |first=Peter |last=Sanderson |access-date=March 26, 2010 |date=April 24, 2007 }}</ref> have been critical of Lichtenstein's use of comic-book imagery and art pieces, especially insofar as that use has been seen as endorsement of a patronizing view of comics by the art mainstream;<ref name=publishersweekly_spiegelman /> cartoonist Art Spiegelman commented that "Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup."<ref name=publishersweekly_spiegelman />

Lichtenstein's works based on enlarged panels from comic books engendered a widespread debate about their merits as art.<ref name="PApRLda7">{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/43b85ac8a5a6ab361d2adb164e6a10ce|title=Pop Art pioneer Roy Lichtenstein dead at 73|access-date=June 15, 2013|date=September 29, 1997|work=Associated Press|last=Monroe|first=Robert}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/lifemagroy.htm|title=Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?|access-date=June 10, 2013|date=January 31, 1964|magazine=Life|publisher=LichtensteinFoundation.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104111859/http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/lifemagroy.htm|archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref> Lichtenstein himself admitted, "I am nominally copying, but I am really restating the copied thing in other terms. In doing that, the original acquires a totally different texture. It isn't thick or thin brushstrokes, it's dots and flat colours and unyielding lines."<ref name=W>{{cite journal|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/wow|title=WOW!, Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at Tate Modern II|last=Dunne|first=Nathan|journal=Tate Etc.|issue=27: Spring 2013|date=May 13, 2013}}</ref> Eddie Campbell blogged that "Lichtenstein took a tiny picture, smaller than the palm of the hand, printed in four color inks on newsprint and blew it up to the conventional size at which 'art' is made and exhibited and finished it in paint on canvas."<ref name=L>{{cite web|url=http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/lichtenstein_04.html|title=Lichtenstein|access-date=July 28, 2013|date=February 4, 2007|last=Campbell |first=Eddie}}</ref> With regard to Lichtenstein, Bill Griffith once said, "There's high art and there's low art. And then there's high art that can take low art, bring it into a high art context, appropriate it and elevate it into something else."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v1_2/griffith/|title=Still asking, "Are we having fun yet?"|access-date=July 28, 2013|year=2003|last=Griffith|first=Bill|work=Interdisciplinary Comics Studies|volume=1|issue=2|publisher=Image TexT/University of Florida}}</ref>

=== Later work === In 1966, Lichtenstein moved on from his much-celebrated imagery of the early 1960s, and began his ''Modern Paintings'' series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings. Using his characteristic Ben-Day dots and geometric shapes and lines, he rendered incongruous, challenging images out of familiar architectural structures, patterns borrowed from Art Déco and other subtly evocative, often sequential, motifs.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} The ''Modern Sculpture'' series of 1967–1968 made reference to motifs from Art Déco architecture.<ref name="moma">[http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3542 Roy Lichtenstein] Museum of Modern Art, New York.</ref>{{multiple image | align = | direction = horizontal | header = | header_align = left/right/center | header_background = | footer = | footer_align = | footer_background = | width = | image1 = Vincent van Gogh - De slaapkamer - Google Art Project.jpg | width1 = 191 | caption1 = Van Gogh's ''Bedroom in Arles'' (1888) | image2 = Bedroom at Arles.jpg| | width2 = 200 | caption2 = Lichtenstein's ''Bedroom at Arles'' (1992) | image3 = | width3 = | caption3 = }}

In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein reproduced masterpieces by Cézanne, Mondrian, and Picasso before embarking on the ''Brushstrokes'' series in 1965.<ref name="RLLA37">{{harvnb |Alloway|1983|p=37}}: "Lichtenstein staked out art as a theme in 1962 in terms of reproductions of masterpieces by Cézanne, Mondrian, and Picasso. The theme reappears in another form in the Brushstrokes of 1965–66: no specific artist is identifiable with them, but at the time the paintings were usually interpreted as a putdown of gestural Abstract Expressionism (the disparity between Lichtenstein's neat technique and the hefty swipes of impasted paint is marked)."</ref> He continued to revisit this theme later in his career with works such as ''Bedroom at Arles'' that derived from Vincent van Gogh's ''Bedroom in Arles''.

In 1970, Lichtenstein was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (within its Art and Technology program developed between 1967 and 1971) to make a film. With the help of Universal Film Studios, the artist conceived of, and produced, ''Three Landscapes'', a film of marine landscapes, directly related to a series of collages with landscape themes he created between 1964 and 1966.<ref>[http://www.march.es/arte/ingles/madrid/exposiciones/lichtenstein/temporal.asp Roy Lichtenstein: Beginning to End, February 2 – May 27, 2007] Fundación Juan March, Madrid.</ref> Although Lichtenstein had planned to produce 15 short films, the three-screen installation&nbsp;– made with New York-based independent filmmaker Joel Freedman&nbsp;– turned out to be the artist's only venture into the medium.<ref>Richard Kalina (April 12, 2011), [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/roy-lichtenstein/ Roy Lichtenstein] ''Art in America''.</ref>

Also in 1970, Lichtenstein purchased a former carriage house in Southampton, Long Island, built a studio on the property, and spent the rest of the 1970s in relative seclusion.<ref name="The Art Behind The Dots">Deborah Solomon (March 8, 1987), [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/magazine/the-art-behind-the-dots.html The Art Behind The Dots] ''New York Times''.</ref> In the 1970s and 1980s, his style began to loosen and he expanded on what he had done before. Lichtenstein began a series of ''Mirrors'' paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the ''Mirrors'' series, he started work on the subject of entablatures. The ''Entablatures'' consisted of a first series of paintings from 1971 to 1972, followed by a second series in 1974–1976, and the publication of a series of relief prints in 1976.<ref name="paulacoopergallery1">[http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/507 Roy Lichtenstein: Entablatures, September 17 – November 12, 2011] Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.</ref> Lichtenstein produced a series of "Artists Studios" which incorporated elements of his previous work. A notable example being ''Artist's Studio, Look Mickey'' (1973, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) which incorporates five other previous works, fitted into the scene.<ref name="rlf-chronology" />

During a trip to Los Angeles in 1978, Lichtenstein was fascinated by lawyer Robert Rifkind's collection of German Expressionist prints and illustrated books. He began to produce works that borrowed stylistic elements found in Expressionist paintings. ''The White Tree'' (1980) evokes lyric Der Blaue Reiter landscapes, while ''Dr. Waldmann'' (1980) recalls Otto Dix's ''Dr. Mayer-Hermann'' (1926). Small colored-pencil drawings were used as templates for woodcuts, a medium favored by Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, as well as Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/roy-lichtenstein--july-01-2013-2 Lichtenstein: Expressionism, July 1 – October 12, 2013] Gagosian Gallery, Paris.</ref> Also in the late 1970s, Lichtenstein's style was replaced with more surreal works such as ''Pow Wow'' (1979, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen). A major series of Surrealist-Pop paintings from 1979 to 1981 is based on Native American themes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/aslist/People$00403520/0/primaryMakerAlpha-asc?t:state:flow=b225784f-c3a2-448b-a7c7-140f52efdaf6 |title=New Mexico Museum of Art |publisher=Sam.nmartmuseum.org |access-date=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325115300/http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/aslist/People$00403520/0/primaryMakerAlpha-asc?t:state:flow=b225784f-c3a2-448b-a7c7-140f52efdaf6 |archive-date=March 25, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=374 Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters, May 13 – September 4, 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226165855/http://tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=374 |date=December 26, 2011}} Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma.</ref> These works range from ''Amerind Figure'' (1981), a stylized life-size sculpture reminiscent of a streamlined totem pole in black-patinated bronze, to the monumental wool tapestry ''Amerind Landscape'' (1979). The "Indian" works took their themes, like the other parts of the Surrealist series, from contemporary art and other sources, including books on American Indian design from Lichtenstein's small library.<ref>Grace Glueck (December 23, 2005) [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/23lich.html A Pop Artist's Fascination With the First Americans] ''New York Times''.</ref>[[File:Tel Aviv 07-12 (7535242642).jpg|thumb|In 1989, Lichtenstein created a giant two-panel mural for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art]]Lichtenstein's ''Still Life'' paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/may-08-2010--roy-lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes, May 8 – July 30, 2010] Gagosian Gallery, New York.</ref> In 1983 Lichtenstein made two anti-apartheid posters, simply titled "Against Apartheid".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imageduplicator.com/main.php?decade=80&year=83&work_id=3700|title = Against Apartheid – Image-Duplicator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imageduplicator.com/main.php?decade=80&year=83&work_id=3821|title = Against Apartheid Poster – Image-Duplicator}}</ref> In his ''Reflection'' series, produced between 1988 and 1990, Lichtenstein reused his own motifs from previous works.<ref>[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5074077 Roy Lichtenstein, ''Reflections on the Prom'' (1990)] Christie's Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, May 13, 2008.</ref> ''Interiors'' (1991–1992) is a series of works depicting banal domestic environments inspired by furniture ads the artist found in telephone books or on billboards.<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lichtenstein-interior-with-waterlilies-t07339 Roy Lichtenstein, ''Interior with Waterlilies'' (1991)] Tate Modern.</ref> Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic prints of Edgar Degas featured in a 1994 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the motifs of his ''Landscapes in the Chinese Style'' series are formed with simulated Ben-Day dots and block contours, rendered in hard, vivid color, with all traces of the hand removed.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/roy-lichtenstein--november-12-2011 Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style, November 12 – December 22, 2011] Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong.</ref> The nude is a recurring element in Lichtenstein's work of the 1990s, such as in ''Collage for Nude with Red Shirt'' (1995).

In addition to paintings and sculptures, Lichtenstein also made over 300 prints, mostly in screenprinting.<ref>{{harvnb|Corlett|2002}}</ref>

===Commissions=== [[File:BMW Group 5 320i Roy Lichtenstein 1977.jpg|thumb|Group 5 Racing Version of BMW 320i, painted in 1977 by Lichtenstein]] In 1969, Lichtenstein was commissioned by Gunter Sachs to create ''Composition'' and ''Leda and the Swan'', for the collector's Pop Art bedroom suite at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures ''Lamp'' (1978) in St. Mary's, Georgia; ''Mermaid'' (1979) in Miami Beach; the 26 feet tall ''Brushstrokes in Flight'' (1984, moved in 1998) at John Glenn Columbus International Airport; the five-storey high ''Mural with Blue Brushstroke'' (1984–1985) at the Equitable Center, New York; and ''El Cap de Barcelona'' (1992) in Barcelona.<ref name="moma" /> In 1994, Lichtenstein created the 53-foot-long, enamel-on-metal ''Times Square Mural'' in Times Square subway station.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ken |last=Johnson |date=October 11, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/arts/art-in-review-roy-lichtenstein-times-square-mural.html |title=Roy Lichtenstein – 'Times Square Mural'|work=The New York Times}}</ref> In 1977, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i for the third installment in the BMW Art Car Project. The DreamWorks Records logo was his last completed project.<ref name="rlf-chronology" /> "I'm not in the business of doing anything like that (a corporate logo) and don't intend to do it again," allows Lichtenstein. "But I know Mo Ostin and David Geffen and it seemed interesting."<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Roy Lichtenstein Designs Logo For DreamWorks Records|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Artist+Roy+Lichtenstein+Designs+Logo+For+DreamWorks+Records-a018598870|access-date=May 28, 2012|author=DreamWorks Records|date=August 20, 1996}}</ref>

==Personal life, illness, and death== In 1949, Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson, who previously had been married to Ohio artist Michael Sarisky.<ref name="rlf-Alloway">{{harvnb|Alloway|1983 | p= 113}}</ref> However, the brutal upstate winters took a toll on Lichtenstein and his wife,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3612858/Whaam-Suddenly-Roy-was-the-darling-of-the-art-world.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3612858/Whaam-Suddenly-Roy-was-the-darling-of-the-art-world.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Whaam! Suddenly Roy was the darling of the art world|last=Gayford|first=Martin|date=February 25, 2004|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=November 12, 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> after he began teaching at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. The couple sold the family home in Highland Park, New Jersey, in 1963<ref>Alastair Sooke (February 18, 2013), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9857640/Roy-Lichtensteins-lover-He-wanted-to-make-women-cry.html Roy Lichtenstein's lover: "He wanted to make women cry"] ''Daily Telegraph''.</ref> and divorced two years later.

Lichtenstein married his second wife, Dorothy Herzka (1939–2024), in 1968.<ref name="rlf-Alloway114">{{harvnb|Alloway | 1983 | pp = 114}}</ref> In the late 1960s, they rented a house in Southampton, New York that Larry Rivers had bought around the corner from his own house.<ref name="Studios by the Sea">Bob Colacello (January 2000), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2000/01/studios-by-the-sea-200001 Studios by the Sea] ''Vanity Fair''.</ref> Three years later, they bought a 1910 carriage house facing the ocean on Gin Lane.<ref name="Studios by the Sea" /> From 1970 until his death, Lichtenstein split his time between Manhattan and Southampton.<ref name="NYT-1997-02-02">{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Actor Finds That His Roles Walk on the Darker Side of Life |first=Jane |last=Julianelli |date=February 2, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/02/nyregion/actor-finds-that-his-roles-walk-on-the-darker-side-of-life.html }}</ref> Lichtenstein also had a home on Captiva Island.<ref>Jackie Cooperman (May 18, 2010), [http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/dispatch-captiva-island-florida/ Dispatch: Captiva Island, Florida] ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine''.</ref>

In 1991, Lichtenstein began an affair with singer Erica Wexler who became the muse for his Nudes series including the 1994 "Nudes with Beach Ball". She was 22 and he was 68.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 27, 2013|title='Roy didn't want a woman. He liked them young and juicy'|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/roy-didn-t-want-a-woman-he-liked-them-young-and-juicy-lichtenstein-s-secret-lover-on-being-the-muse-behind-his-nudes-8499255.html|access-date=November 19, 2021|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> The affair lasted until 1994 and was over when Wexler went to England with future husband Andy Partridge of XTC. According to Wexler, Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy had an understanding and they both had significant others in addition to their marriage.

On September 29, 1997, Lichtenstein died at age 73 of pneumonia<ref name="Great-20th-Century-Artists" /> at New York University Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks.<ref name="Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/lichtenstein-widow-recalls-macro-diet-love-for-jazz.html|title=Lichtenstein Widow Recalls Macro Diet, Love for Jazz|last=Nayeri|first=Farah|date=February 20, 2013|publisher=Bloomberg News}}</ref>

== Art works ==

=== Copyright, attribution, and scholarly perspectives === Although Lichtenstein's comic-based work gained some acceptance, concerns are still expressed by critics who say Lichtenstein did not credit, pay any royalties to, or seek permission from the original artists or copyright holders.<ref>{{cite web |last=Steven |first=Rachael |date=May 13, 2013 |title=Image Duplicator: pop art's comic debt |url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/may/image-duplicator-pop-arts-comic-theft |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002013823/http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/may/image-duplicator-pop-arts-comic-theft |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |access-date=June 18, 2013 |work=Creative Review}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Childs |first=Brian |date=February 2, 2011 |title=Deconstructing Lichtenstein: Source Comics Revealed and Credited |url=http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/02/deconstructing-lichtenstein-source-comics-revealed-and-credited/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223049/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/02/deconstructing-lichtenstein-source-comics-revealed-and-credited/ |archive-date=January 12, 2013 |access-date=June 23, 2013 |publisher=Comics Alliance}}</ref> In an interview for a BBC Four documentary in 2013, Alastair Sooke asked the comic book artist Dave Gibbons if he considered Lichtenstein a plagiarist. Gibbons replied: "I would say 'copycat'. In music for instance, you can't just whistle somebody else's tune or perform somebody else's tune, no matter how badly, without somehow crediting and giving payment to the original artist. That's to say, this is 'WHAAM! by Roy Lichtenstein, after Irv Novick'."<ref name="TPoL">{{cite web |last=Gravett |first=Paul |date=March 17, 2013 |title=The Principality of Lichtenstein: From 'WHAAM!' to 'WHAAT?' |url=http://paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/the_principality_of_lichtenstein |access-date=June 30, 2013 |publisher=PaulGravett.com}}</ref> Sooke himself maintains that "Lichtenstein transformed Novick's artwork in a number of subtle but crucial ways."<ref name="www.bbc.com 20130717-pop-artist-or-copy-cat">{{cite web |last=Sooke |first=Alistair |date=July 17, 2013 |title=Is Lichtenstein a great modern artist or a copy cat? |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130717-pop-artist-or-copy-cat |access-date=July 19, 2013 |publisher=BBC Culture}}</ref>

City University London lecturer Ernesto Priego notes that Lichtenstein's failure to credit the original creators of his comic works was a reflection on the decision by National Periodical Publications, the predecessor of DC Comics, to omit any credit for their writers and artists: {{Blockquote|text=Besides embodying the cultural prejudice against comic books as vehicles of art, examples like Lichtenstein's appropriation of the vocabulary of comics highlight the importance of taking publication format in consideration when defining comics, as well as the political economy implied by specific types of historical publications, in this case the American mainstream comic book. To what extent was National Periodical Publications (later DC) responsible for the rejection of the roles of Kanigher and Novick as artists in their own right by not granting them full authorial credit on the publication itself?"<ref name=WBaFS>{{cite web|url=http://blog.comicsgrid.com/2011/04/whaam-becoming-a-flaming-star/|title=Whaam! Becoming a Flaming Star|access-date=July 28, 2013|date=April 4, 2011|last=Priego|first=Ernesto|work=The Comics Grid, Journal of Comics Scholarship|volume=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002102214/http://blog.comicsgrid.com/2011/04/whaam-becoming-a-flaming-star/|archive-date=October 2, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>}} Furthermore, Campbell notes that there was a time when comic artists often declined attribution for their work.<ref name="L" />

In an account published in 1998, Novick said that he had met Lichtenstein in the army in 1947 and, as his superior officer, had responded to Lichtenstein's tearful complaints about the menial tasks he was assigned by recommending him for a better job.<ref name="Beaty">{{cite journal |last=Beaty |first=Bart |year=2004 |title=Roy Lichtenstein's Tears: Art vs. Pop in American Culture |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/crv/summary/v034/34.3beaty.html |journal=Canadian Review of American Studies |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=249–268 |access-date=June 30, 2013}}</ref> Jean-Paul Gabilliet has questioned this account, saying that Lichtenstein had left the army a year before the time Novick says the incident took place.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gabilliet |first=Jean-Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1t8g_yX1wcC&pg=PA350 |title=Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-60473-267-2 |page=350}}</ref> Bart Beaty, noting that Lichtenstein had appropriated Novick for works such as ''Whaam!'' and ''Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!'', says that Novick's story "seems to be an attempt to personally diminish" the more famous artist.<ref name="Beaty" />

=== Exhibitions === [[File:Licht 1.jpg|thumb|right|Part of the Skirball Cultural Center's ''Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.'' exhibit.]] In 1964, Lichtenstein became the first American to exhibit at the Tate Gallery, London, on the occasion of the show "'54–'64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade." In 1967, his first museum retrospective exhibition was held at the Pasadena Art Museum in California. The same year, Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition in Europe was held at museums in Amsterdam, London, Bern and Hannover.<ref name="rlf-Alloway" /> He later participated in documentas IV (1968) and VI in (1977).

Lichtenstein had his first retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 1969, organized by Diane Waldman. The Guggenheim presented a second Lichtenstein retrospective in 1994.<ref name="paulacoopergallery1" /> Lichtenstein became the first living artist to have a solo drawing exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art from March to June 1987.<ref name="The Art Behind The Dots" /> In 2003, the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited ''Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof'', six bronze and aluminum sculptures on its roof.

More recent retrospective surveys include the 2003 "All About Art", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Denmark (which traveled on to the Hayward Gallery, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/madindex.htm|title=The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation|work=lichtensteinfoundation.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623193933/http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/madindex.htm|archive-date=June 23, 2012}}</ref> and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, until 2005); and "Classic of the New", Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005), "Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art" Museo Triennale, Milan (2010, traveled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne).

In 2007, the National Portrait Gallery in London mounted the major exhibition ''Pop Art Portraits''. Lichtenstein was a featured artist, alongside contemporaries like Andy Warhol and David Hockney.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-05-24 |title=Pop art show for Portrait Gallery |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6686873.stm |access-date=2026-01-12 |agency=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In late 2010, The Morgan Library & Museum showed ''Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Myers|first=Terry R.|title=Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=November 2010|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2010/11/artseen/roy-lichtenstein-the-black-and-white-drawings-1961-1968}}</ref> Another major retrospective opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012 before going to the National Gallery of Art in Washington,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/roy-lichtenstein-a-retrospective-an-expansive-collection/2012/10/11/1996da08-13bc-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_gallery.html?tid=ts_carousel#photo=22 |title="Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective": An expansive collection |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 15, 2013}}</ref> Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|first=Carol |last=Vogel|date= April 5, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/a-new-traveling-show-of-lichtenstein-works.html?ref=design|title= A New Traveling Show of Lichtenstein Works|journal= New York Times}}</ref> Other exhibits include ''Roy Lichtenstein'', Olyvia Fine Art, London in 2013, ''Roy Lichtenstein: Intimate Sculptures'', The FLAG Art Foundation and ''Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima'', Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Turin, both in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Roy-Lichtenstein/1D75C7E9A1F23527/Exhibitions|title=Events & Exhibits of Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)|work=mutualart.com}}</ref> From October 7, 2016 through March 12, 2017, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles had on view ''Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.''<ref>{{cite web | title=Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A. {{pipe}} Skirball Cultural Center | url=https://www.skirball.org/museum/pop-people-roy-lichtenstein-la }}</ref> 2018: Exhibition at The Tate Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

=== Art market === Since the 1950s Lichtenstein's work has been exhibited in New York and elsewhere with Leo Castelli at his gallery and at Castelli Graphics as well as with Ileana Sonnabend in her gallery in Paris, and at the Ferus Gallery, Pace Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mary Boone, Brooke Alexander Gallery, Carlebach, Rosa Esman, Marilyn Pearl, James Goodman, John Heller, Blum Helman, Hirschl & Adler, Phyllis Kind, Getler Pall, Condon Riley, 65 Thompson Street, Holly Solomon, and Sperone Westwater Galleries among others. Leo Castelli Gallery represented Lichtenstein exclusively since 1962,<ref name="Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies" /> when a solo show by the artist sold out before it opened.<ref>Holland Cotter (October 18, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/roy-lichtenstein-a-retrospective-at-the-national-gallery-of-art.html Cool. Commercial. Unmistakable.] ''New York Times''.</ref>

Beginning in 1962, the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, held regular exhibitions of the artist's work.<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Roy%20Lichtenstein&page=1&f=Name&cr=1 Roy Lichtenstein] Guggenheim Collection.</ref> Gagosian Gallery has been exhibiting work by Lichtenstein since 1996.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/artists/roy-lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein] Gagosian Gallery.</ref>

''Big Painting No. 6'' (1965) became the highest priced Lichtenstein work in 1970.<ref name=RPfAAaNYA /> Like the entire Brushstrokes series, the subject of the painting is the process of Abstract Expressionist painting via sweeping brushstrokes and drips, but the result of Lichtenstein's simplification that uses a Ben-Day dots background is a representation of the mechanical/industrial color printing reproduction.<ref>{{harvnb|Selz|1981|pp=454–455}}: ''"The process of painting is the subject matter in Roy Lichtenstein's ''Big Painting No. 6''. This painting refers to the popular conception of Abstract Expressionist works: their large size broad brushstrokes, drips. But Lichtenstein's painting is all neat and clean. Since the simplification refers to printed color reproductions, Lichtenstein paints in the benday dots of the mechanical process. The affective content of an action painting is replaced by a painted image that, paradoxically, resembles an industrial product."''</ref>

Lichtenstein's painting ''Torpedo ... Los!'' (1963) sold at Christie's for $5.5&nbsp;million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums.<ref name="rlf-Alloway" /> In 2005, ''In the Car'' was sold for a then record $16.2m (£10m).

In 2010, Lichtenstein's cartoon-style 1964 painting ''Ohhh...Alright...'', previously owned by Steve Martin and later by Steve Wynn,<ref>Kelly Crow (October 1, 2010), [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704483004575524231729585038 Pop Goes the Art Market: A $40 Million Lichtenstein?] ''Wall Street Journal''.</ref> was sold at a record US$42.6m (£26.7m) at a sale at Christie's in New York.<ref name="bbc" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110628223105/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-11/lichtenstein-s-43-million-pouting-redhead-helps-revive-market.html ''Bloomberg Business Week'', "Lichtenstein's $43 Million Pouting Redhead Helps Revive Market"] Retrieved November 11, 2010</ref>

Based on a 1961 William Overgard drawing for a ''Steve Roper'' cartoon story,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/peeping-tom-by-lichtenstein-may-sell-for-45-million-christie-s.html|title=Peephole Tom by Lichtenstein May Fetch $45 Million at Auction|publisher=BLOOMBERG L.P.|date=October 6, 2011 |access-date=April 19, 2012}}</ref> Lichtenstein's ''I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!'' (1961) depicts a man looking through a hole in a door. It was sold by collector Courtney Sale Ross for $43&nbsp;million, double its estimate, at Christie's in New York City in 2011; the seller's husband, Steve Ross had acquired it at auction in 1988 for $2.1&nbsp;million.<ref name="bloomberg" /> The painting measures four-foot by four-foot and is in graphite and oil.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15655752|title=Roy Lichtenstein Work Sets New $43m Sale Record|publisher=BBC News|date=November 9, 2011|access-date=November 9, 2011}}</ref>

The comic painting ''Sleeping Girl'' (1964) from the collection of Beatrice and Phillip Gersh established a new Lichtenstein record $44.8&nbsp;million at Sotheby's in 2012.<ref name="sothebys" /><ref name="nytimes" />

In October 2012, Lichtenstein's painting ''Electric Cord'' (1962) was returned to Leo Castelli's widow Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, after having been missing for 42 years. Castelli had sent the painting to an art restorer for cleaning in January 1970, and never got it back. He died in 1999. In 2006, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation published an image of the painting on its holiday greeting card and asked the art community to help find it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/long-missing-lichtenstein-painting-returned-to-ny-owner-1.1212844|title=Long-missing Lichtenstein painting returned to NY owner|date=October 17, 2012|publisher=CBC News}}</ref> The painting was found in a New York warehouse, after having been displayed in Bogota, Colombia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/long-missing-roy-lichtenstein-canvas-found-in-ny-1.1252736|title=Long-missing Roy Lichtenstein canvas found in NY|date=August 2, 2012|work=cbc.ca}}</ref>

In 2013, the painting ''Woman with Flowered Hat'' set another record at $56.1&nbsp;million as it was purchased by British jeweller Laurence Graff from American investor Ronald O. Perelman.<ref name="cvogel2013" /> This was topped in 2015 by the sale of ''Nurse'' for 95.4&nbsp;million dollars at a Christie's auction.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pogrebin|first1=Robin|title=With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/arts/with-170-4-million-sale-at-auction-modigliani-work-joins-rarefied-nine-figure-club.html|access-date=November 10, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=November 10, 2015 }}</ref>

In a 2016 episode of the ''Antiques Roadshow'', a 1966 Lichtenstein screenprint was valued at $20,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1966 Roy Lichtenstein Screenprint |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisals/1966-roy-lichtenstein-screenprint/ |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=Antiques Roadshow {{!}} PBS |language=en}}</ref>

In January 2017, ''Masterpiece'' was sold for $165&nbsp;million. The proceeds of this sale will be used to create a fund for criminal justice reform.<ref name="Masterpiece"/>

=== Record sales === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; width=100%" |+Roy Lichtenstein sales records |- !|Work !|Date !|Price !|Source |- | ''Big Painting No. 6''||November 1970||$75,000 ||<ref name=RPfAAaNYA>{{cite news|title=Record Prices for Art Auction at New York Auction|last=Hahn|first=Susan|access-date=May 12, 2012|date=November 19, 1970|page=29|work=Lowell Sun|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/lowell-sun/1970-11-19/page-29/|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- | ''Torpedo...Los!''||November 7, 1989||$5.5M ||<ref name=AdKWSARa$M>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/09/arts/a-de-kooning-work-sets-a-record-at-20.7-million.html|title=A de Kooning Work Sets A Record at $20.7 Million|access-date=May 9, 2012|date=November 9, 1989|work=The New York Times|last=Reif|first=Rita}}</ref><ref name=$MIPFL /> |- | ''Kiss II''||1990||$6.0M ||<ref name=$MIPFL>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB34082DD2B86CD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=$6 Million Is Paid For Lichtenstein|work=Miami Herald|page=5D|date=May 9, 1990|access-date=May 17, 2012|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=Arfpa>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2480227.stm|title=Auction record for pop artist|access-date=May 15, 2012|date=November 15, 2002|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> |- | ''Happy Tears''||November 2002||$7.1M ||<ref name=Arfpa /><ref name=R$pfaR /> |- | ''In the Car''||2005||$16.2M ||<ref name=R$pfaR>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/arts/09iht-melik10.html|title=Record $22.4&nbsp;million paid for a Rothko|access-date=May 17, 2012|date=November 10, 2005|work=The New York Times|last=Melikian|first=Souren}}</ref><ref name=LTWiA>{{cite magazine|url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/11/lichtenstein-tops-warhol-in-auction/|title=Lichtenstein Tops Warhol in Auction|access-date=May 17, 2012|date=November 11, 2010|magazine=Time|last=Kelly|first=Tara}}</ref> |- | ''Ohhh...Alright...''||November 2010||$42.6M ||<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11732551|title=Roy Lichtenstein painting fetches $42.6m at auction|publisher=BBC News|date=November 11, 2010|access-date=November 11, 2010}}</ref><ref name=LTWiA /> |- | ''I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!''||November 2011||$43.0M ||<ref name="bloomberg">Katya Kazakina and Philip Boroff (November 9, 2011), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/roy-lichtenstein-peephole-painting-sets-43-million-record-at-christie-s.html Roy Lichtenstein Peephole Sets $43 Million Record at Christie's] ''Bloomberg''.</ref> |- | ''Sleeping Girl''||May 9, 2012||$44.8M ||<ref name="sothebys">{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2012/contemporary-art-evening-n08853#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.N08853.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.N08853.html/16/|title=Contemporary Art Evening Auction: New York – 09 May 2012 07:00&nbsp;pm – N08853|access-date=May 10, 2012|publisher=Sotheby's|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143840/http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2012/contemporary-art-evening-n08853#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.N08853.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.N08853.html/16/|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">Souren Melikian (May 11, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/arts/12iht-melikian12.html Disconnect in the Art Market] ''New York Times''.</ref> |- |''Nude with Joyous Painting'' |July 9, 2020 |$46.2M |<ref>{{Cite web|title=A late-career 'tour de force' — Roy Lichtenstein's Nude with Joyous Painting {{!}} Christie's|url=https://www.christies.com/features/Nude-with-Joyous-Painting-by-Roy-Lichtenstein-10340-3.aspx|access-date=October 5, 2021|website=www.christies.com|language=en}}</ref> |- | ''Woman with Flowered Hat''||May 15, 2013||$56.1M ||<ref name="cvogel2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/arts/design/christies-art-auction-sets-record-at-495-million.html|title=Christie's Contemporary Art Auction Sets Record at $495 Million|access-date=May 18, 2013|date=May 15, 2013|work=The New York Times|last=Vogel|first=Carol}}</ref> |- | ''Nurse''||November 9, 2015||$95.4M ||<ref name="rpogrebin2015">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/arts/with-170-4-million-sale-at-auction-modigliani-work-joins-rarefied-nine-figure-club.html|title=With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club|access-date=November 10, 2015|date=November 9, 2015|work=The New York Times|last1=Pogrebin|first1=Robin|last2=Reyburn|first2=Scott}}</ref> |- | ''Masterpiece''||January 2017||$165M||<ref name="Masterpiece"/> |}

=== Collections === In 1996 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. became the largest single repository of the artist's work when Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and two books. The Art Institute of Chicago has several important works by Lichtenstein in its permanent collection, including ''Brushstroke with Spatter'' (1966) and ''Mirror No. 3 (Six Panels)'' (1971). The personal holdings of Lichtenstein's widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein, and of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation number in the hundreds.<ref>Ted Loos (June 28, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/arts/design/roy-lichtenstein-retrospective-in-chicago.html Lichtenstein's Gatekeeper Uses Her Key] ''New York Times''.</ref> In Europe, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne has one of the most comprehensive Lichtenstein holdings with ''Takka Takka'' (1962), ''Nurse'' (1964), ''Compositions I'' (1964), besides the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst with ''We rose up slowly'' (1964) and ''Yellow and Green Brushstrokes'' (1966). Outside the United States and Europe, the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Collection has extensive holdings of Lichtenstein's prints, numbering over 300 works. In total there are some 4,500 works thought to be in circulation.<ref name="rlf-chronology" />

Among many other works of art lost in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, a painting from Lichtenstein's ''The Entablature Series'' was destroyed in the subsequent fire.<ref name="artnews2">{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Kelly Devine |date=November 2001 |title=Aftershocks |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/aftershocks-46/ |access-date=September 27, 2013 |work=ARTnews}}</ref>

== Legacy ==

=== Accolades === * 1977: Skowhegan Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine. * 1979: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. * 1989: American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy. Artist in residence. * 1991: Creative Arts Award in Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. * 1993: Amici de Barcelona, from Mayor Pasqual Maragall, L'Alcalde de Barcelona. * 1995: Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan. * 1995: National Medal of the Arts, Washington D.C.

Lichtenstein received numerous Honorary Doctorate degrees from, among others, the California Institute of the Arts (1977),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honorary Degree Recipients {{!}} CalArts |url=https://calarts.edu/history/honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=2026-01-12 |website=calarts.edu}}</ref> Southampton College (1980), Ohio State University (1987), Bard College, Royal College of Art (1993), George Washington University (1996). He also served on the board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.<ref name="The Art Behind The Dots" />

In 2023, the United States Postal Service commemorated the centennial of Lichtenstein's birth with the release of a stamp series dedicated in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Five of Lichtenstein's paintings were featured on Forever stamps: ''Standing Explosion (Red)'', ''Modern Painting I'', ''Still Life with Crystal Bowl'', ''Still Life with Goldfish'', and ''Portrait of a Woman''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 24, 2022 |title=U.S. Postal Service Reveals Stamps for 2023 |url=https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1024-usps-reveals-stamps-for-2023.htm |access-date=October 26, 2022 |publisher=United States Postal Service}}</ref>

=== Roy Lichtenstein Foundation === After the artist's death in 1997, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation was established in 1999. In 2011, the foundation's board decided the benefits of authenticating were outweighed by the risks of protracted lawsuits.<ref>Patricia Cohen (June 19, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/arts/design/art-scholars-fear-lawsuits-in-declaring-works-real-or-fake.html In Art, Freedom of Expression Doesn't Extend to 'Is It Real?'] ''New York Times''.</ref>

In late 2006, the foundation sent out a holiday card featuring a picture of ''Electric Cord'' (1961), a painting that had been missing since 1970 after being sent out to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer by the Leo Castelli Gallery. The card urged the public to report any information about its whereabouts.<ref>Barbara Ross (July 31, 2012), [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lost-roy-lichtenstein-painting-surfaces-upper-east-side-missing-42-years-article-1.1125949 'Lost' Roy Lichtenstein painting surfaces on Upper East Side after being missing for 42 years] ''Daily News''.</ref> In 2012, the foundation authenticated the piece when it surfaced at a New York City warehouse.<ref>Kate Kowsh, Liz Sadler and Dareh Gregorian (August 1, 2012), [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/piece_found_A7dbWLN5SN5tJCTXR8aHeK $4M piece found – Art lost 42 yrs.] ''New York Post''.</ref>

Between 2008 and 2012, following the death of photographer Harry Shunk in 2006,<ref>John Leland (August 11, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/nyregion/after-a-recluses-death-a-cleanup-man-reaps-a-trove-of-art.html Surprise Bounty for Cleanup Artist] ''New York Times''.</ref> the Lichtenstein Foundation acquired the collection of photographic material shot by Shunk and his collaborator János Kender as well as the photographers' copyright.<ref name="Los Angeles Times2">David Ng (December 20, 2013), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-roy-lichtenstein-getty-20131220-story.html Getty among beneficiaries of massive Roy Lichtenstein Foundation gift] ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> In 2013, the foundation donated the Shunk-Kender trove to five institutions – Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and the Tate in London – that will allow each museum access to the others' share.<ref name="Los Angeles Times2" />

== In popular culture == '''Documentaries''' Lichtenstein appears in various documentaries about Pop Art and his own work, including ''Roy Lichtenstein'' (1975) by Michael Blackwood,<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://eternal.tv/programs/roy-lichenstein |title=Roy Lichenstein (1975) |language=en |access-date=2026-01-12 |via=eternal.tv}}</ref> ''Reflections on a Mermaid'' (1994) by Theodore Bogosian for PBS,<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/reflections-on-a-mermaid-roy-lichtenstein-1994-kubwe0/ |title=Reflections on a Mermaid: Roy Lichtenstein (1994) |language=en |access-date=2026-01-12 |via=www.pbs.org}}</ref> and ''Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation'' (2022) by James L. Hussey.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Power |first=Scott "Sourdough" |date=2023-05-16 |title=James L Hussey: The Director Questioning Roy Lichtenstein's 'Art of Appropriation' [Podcast] |url=https://notrealart.com/james-hussey/ |access-date=2026-01-12 |website=Not Real Art World |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Clear}}

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last=Alloway|first=Lawrence|title=Roy Lichtenstein|year=1983|publisher=Abbeville Press|location=New York|isbn=0-89659-331-2|series=Modern Masters Series |volume=1}} *{{cite book|last=Coplans|first=John|title=Roy Lichtenstein|year=1972|publisher=Praeger|location=New York|oclc=605283|author-link=John Coplans}} *{{cite book|last=Corlett|first=Mary Lee|title=The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein : a Catalogue Raisonné 1948–1997|year=2002|publisher=Hudson Hills Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=1-55595-196-1|edition=2}} *{{cite book|last=Hendrickson|first=Janis|title=Roy Lichtenstein|year=1988|publisher=Benedikt Taschen|location=Cologne, Germany|isbn=3-8228-0281-6}} *{{cite book|last=Lobel|first=Michael|title=Image duplicator : Roy Lichtenstein and the emergence of pop art|year=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT|isbn=978-0-300-08762-8}} *{{cite book | last = Lucie-Smith | first = Edward | author-link = Edward Lucie-Smith | title = Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists | publisher = Thames & Hudson | date = September 1, 1999 | url = https://archive.org/details/livesofgreat20th00luci | isbn = 978-0-500-23739-7 | url-access = registration }} *{{cite book|editor-last=Marter|editor-first=Joan M.|title=Off limits : Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–1963|year=1999|publisher=Newark Museum|location=Newark, N.J.|isbn=0-8135-2610-8}} *{{cite book|title=Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History 1890–1980|last=Selz|first= Peter|publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc.|year=1981|isbn=0-8109-1676-2|chapter=The 1960s: Painting}} {{refend}}

==Further reading== *Iden, Peter, Lauter, Rolf, ''Bilder für Frankfurt'', Bestandskatalog Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 1985, cover image, pp 82–83, 176–178. {{ISBN|978-3-7913-0702-2}}. *''Roy Lichtenstein Interview with Chris Hunt'' Image Entertainment video, 1991 *''Roy Lichtenstein Interview with Melvyn Bragg'' video *{{cite book|last=Adelman|first=Bob|title=Roy Lichtenstein's ABC's|year=1999|publisher=Bulfinch Press|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-8212-2591-2}} *{{cite book|last=Waldman|first=Diane|title=Roy Lichtenstein : Drawing and Prints|year=1988|publisher=Wellfleet Books|location=Secaucus, N.J.|isbn=978-1-55521-301-5|orig-year=1st Pub. 1970}}

==External links== {{Wikiquote|Roy Lichtenstein}} {{Commons category|Roy Lichtenstein}} {{External media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 =[http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/lichtensteins-rouen-cathedral-set-v.html Lichtenstein's Rouen Cathedral Set V], (3:10) Smarthistory | video2 =[http://www.artbabble.org/video/ngadc/roy-lichtenstein-retrospective-national-gallery-art-washington Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective], (5:50), National Gallery of Art | video3=[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-roy-lichtenstein TateShots: Roy Lichtenstein], (3:31) Tate Gallery | video4 ={{YouTube|Ab-7WFx06EA|Dorothy Lichtenstein on Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective}}, (1:16), Art Institute of Chicago }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518225317/http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/ Roy Lichtenstein Foundation] * {{MoMA artist|3542}} * [https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/23/arts/design/20100924-lich.html?ref=multimedia Roy Lichtenstein] – slideshow by ''The New York Times'' * [https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2013/08/13/how-nail-art-and-roy-lichtenstein-belong-together/ How Nail Art And Roy Lichtenstein Belong Together] – article by ''Forbes'' * [http://nga.gov.au/internationalprints/tyler/Default.cfm?MnuID=3&ArtistIRN=23135&List=True&CREIRN=23135&ORDER_SELECT=13&VIEW_SELECT=5&GrpNam=12&TNOTES=TRUE Roy Lichtenstein in the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler collection]

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