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Lot Essay
This work will appear in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
“Roy Lichtenstein’s still lifes of the 1970s and early 1980s represent not only a new direction in the work of this Pop master and many of his colleagues at this time, but also an inventive transformation of the genre by a whole generation of artists’ (J. Wilmerding, ‘Roy Lichtenstein’s Still Lifes: Conversations with Art History’, in Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2010, p. 9).
“Roy Lichtenstein’s still lifes of the 1970s and early 1980s represent not only a new direction in the work of this Pop master and many of his colleagues at this time, but also an inventive transformation of the genre by a whole generation of artists’ (J. Wilmerding, ‘Roy Lichtenstein’s Still Lifes: Conversations with Art History’, in Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2010, p. 9).