Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody.[3] Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. His artwork was considered to be "disruptive". Photograph by Bernard Gotfryd
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,when a solo show by the artist sold out before it opened. Beginning in 1962, the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, held regular exhibitions of the artist's work.[94] Gagosian Gallery has been exhibiting work by Lichtenstein since 1996. Big Painting No. 6 (1965) became the highest priced Lichtenstein work in 1970. 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. Lichtenstein's painting Torpedo ... Los! (1963) sold at Christie's for $ million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums.[70] In 2005, In the Car was sold for a then record $ (£10m). In 2010, his cartoon-style 1964 painting , previously owned by Steve Martin and later by Steve Wynn,[98] was sold at a record US$ (£) at a sale at Christie's in New York. Based on a 1961 William Overgard drawing for a Steve Roper cartoon story, Lichtenstein's I Can See the Whole 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 million.
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