Roy Lichtenstein

ROY LICHTENSTEIN, (New York, 1923 - 1997).
"Trompe-l'oeil with Léger head and paintbrush", 1973.
Lithograph poster.
Unsigned.
Measurements: 74 x 58 cm.
Lichtenstein's work is framed within pop art. He was a painter, graphic artist and sculptor, and is best known for his large-scale interpretations of comic art. He began his training at the Art Student's League, and later studied fine arts at Ohio State University, where he received his doctorate in 1949. After a first stage within abstract expressionism, in 1957 he began experimenting with images taken from the comics found on chewing gum wrappers, freely interpreted and mixed with images taken from paintings of the Old West. In 1961 he began to paint vignettes in large formats, in which he exaggerated and redefined the original formal elements. The figures appear enclosed in thick black strokes, the dots of the photogravure plot and the lines that indicate the shadows are enlarged, large surfaces of flat color strictly organize the space. Like other pop artists, he uses images from popular commercial art, such as cartoon characters or advertisements, but his work sometimes also ironizes other artistic styles, such as action painting in his "Brochazos" series. Since the seventies he has also dedicated himself to sculpture.His works can be seen in the most important museums in the world such as the MoMA, the Whitney, the Metropolitan and the Guggenheim in New York, the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Fine Arts Museums of Helsinki, Zurich, Basel, Naples, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Budapest, Vienna, St. Petersburg and Tokyo among others, the Tate Gallery in London, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, among many others.