Roy Lichtenstein [after] (American, 1923-1997). "Study for 'Seductive Girl'". Pen and ink/marker drawing. c1996. Bears spurious signature in pen, lower middle. White wove paper. Fine condition. Based on the work of 1996. Lichtenstein was fascinated by women, their faces and forms. "The kind [of women] I paint are really made of black lines…," he told David Sylvester. "I see it that abstractly. It's very hard for me to fall for one of these creatures, because they're not really reality to me. However, that doesn't mean that I don't have a clichéd ideal, a fantasy ideal, of a woman that I would be interested in. But I think I have in mind what they should look like for other people. I can realize that, when I was a child and I looked at the comic books, these women were really convincing. I really thought these were very beautiful women. Now I see the drawing in it and they don't look that way to me. I mean, you could really have a love affair with these women as a child, and now these don't mean that to me in the originals, in the comic books." (Lichtenstein, quoted in D. Sylvester, Interviews with American Artists, London, 2002, pp. 227-228). Lichtenstein revels in illustrating the unbridgeable gap between reality and representation. "I'm never drawing the object itself," he explained. "I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it." (Lichtenstein, quoted in J. Cowart (ed.), Roy Lichtenstein: Beginning to End, exh. cat., Madrid, 2007, pp. 118-19). Overall size: 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (210 x 295 mm). Image size: 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (210 x 295 mm). [26391] |800| {R100}