Artist: Lichtenstein, Roy
Title: Crying Girl
Technique: Screenprint on Lenox museum board
size: 91,4 x 91,4 cm. (36 x 36 inch)
Framed: Not framed


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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997
This iconic work by the American Roy Lichtenstein.
Title: Crying Girl . Limited edition.
Screenprint after the original painting from 1964.

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein mined advertisements and comics to make groundbreaking paintings that brought American pop culture into the gallery space. He undermined the distinction between painting and printing as he made canvases that looked as though they’d come from a commercial press; using paint and stencils, he meticulously rendered flat, single-color benday dots by hand. Lichtenstein introduced his detached and deadpan style in 1961 when he painted Look Mickey, a picture of the cartoon mouse executed in primary colors. Five years later, he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. By the 1970s, he’d already enjoyed major shows at the Pasadena Art Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Guggenheim. Lichtenstein’s work has sold for more than $90 million at auctions. His use of appropriated imagery has influenced artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon.

About the artist

Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), born in New York City, United States, was an American painter best known for his work in the Pop Art movement. His paintings drew on comic books, advertisements, and consumer imagery, transforming mass-produced images into large-scale works of art that challenged traditional distinctions between high art and popular culture. Through his distinctive visual vocabulary of bold lines, vivid colors, and enlarged Ben-Day dots, Lichtenstein created compositions that were both immediately recognizable and conceptually sophisticated.

Lichtenstein's artistic practice centered on appropriating and recontextualizing imagery from commercial sources, employing a mechanical aesthetic that mimicked industrial printing techniques. He meticulously hand-painted the Ben-Day dot patterns used in comic book reproduction, creating works that appeared machine-made yet required painstaking studio labor. His paintings featured flat areas of color, thick black outlines, and simplified forms that emphasized the graphic qualities of their source material. By isolating and magnifying details from everyday visual culture—dramatic moments from romance comics, explosive war scenes, and banal household objects—he questioned notions of originality and artistic authorship while exploring the complex relationship between fine art and mass media.

Lichtenstein became a central figure in the Pop Art movement and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. His work appeared in major exhibitions and entered prominent museum collections, establishing his position within the canon of postwar American art. The visual language he developed, combining commercial imagery with fine art techniques, fundamentally altered perceptions of what could constitute serious artistic subject matter and continues to influence contemporary artists working with popular culture and appropriation.

sku: LAR0RL1104

Excellent condition, never framed.