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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, he is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Lichtenstein's art is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and he remains one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the 20th century.
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culture · American pop artist (1923–1997) · painter · sculptor · university teacher · scenographer · lithographer · designer · jewelry designer · printmaker · graphic artist · architectural drafter · also Roy Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein
Born 27 October 1923 · Died 15 September 1997 · Q151679
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What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miro and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Roy Lichtenstein pop art masterpieces head to auction for the first time
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2024· 1 entry
Brandeis University: Becoming Roy Lichtenstein
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2023· 3 entries
Artnet: Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein Is Getting a Retrospective at the Whitney—and a Stamp of Approval From the USPS, Too
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Artnet: The Art Angle Podcast: How Roy Lichtenstein Became a Super-Villain to Comic Book Artists
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The United States Postal Service commemorated the centennial of Lichtenstein's birth with the release of a stamp series dedicated in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
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2022· 1 entry
New York Post: Roy Lichtenstein’s NYC home and studio donated to the Whitney Museum
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2019· 1 entry
Architectural Digest: Roy Lichtenstein Was Obsessed with Moldings (Didn’t You Know?)
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2017· 1 entry
Artnet news: Roy Lichtenstein
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2013· 4 entries
The painting Woman with Flowered Hat set another record at $56
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Roy Lichtenstein: Intimate Sculptures, The FLAG Art Foundation and Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Turin, both in 2014
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Alastair Sooke asked the comic book artist Dave Gibbons if he considered Lichtenstein a plagiarist
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The foundation donated the Shunk-Kender trove to five institutions – Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Centre Pompidou in Paris;
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2012· 1 entry
The foundation authenticated the piece when it surfaced at a New York City warehouse
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2011· 1 entry
The foundation's board decided the benefits of authenticating were outweighed by the risks of protracted lawsuits
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2010· 1 entry
Lichtenstein's cartoon-style 1964 painting Ohhh
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2007· 1 entry
The National Portrait Gallery in London mounted the major exhibition Pop Art Portraits
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2006· 2 entries
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation published an image of the painting on its holiday greeting card and asked the art community to help find it
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The Lichtenstein Foundation acquired the collection of photographic material shot by Shunk and his collaborator János Kender as well as the photographers' copyright
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2005· 1 entry
In the Car was sold for a then record $16
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2003· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof, six bronze and aluminum sculptures on its roof
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2001· 1 entry
A painting from Lichtenstein's The Entablature Series was destroyed in the subsequent fire
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1998· 1 entry
Novick said that he had met Lichtenstein in the army in 1947 and, as his superior officer, had responded to Lichtenstein's tearful complaints about the menial tasks he was assigned by recommending him for a better job
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1997· 6 entries
Lichtenstein died at age 73 of pneumonia at New York University Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks
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Died 1997-09-15.
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The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation was established in 1999
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“What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
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“There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miro and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.”
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“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”
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1996· 1 entry
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Lichtenstein created the 53-foot-long, enamel-on-metal Times Square Mural in Times Square subway station
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1991· 1 entry
Lichtenstein began an affair with singer Erica Wexler who became the muse for his Nudes series including the 1994 "Nudes with Beach Ball"
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1989· 1 entry
A record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums
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1983· 1 entry
Lichtenstein made two anti-apartheid posters, simply titled "Against Apartheid"
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1981· 1 entry
Primarily American Pop Art and Minimal Art for the museum under construction until 1991
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1978· 1 entry
Lichtenstein was fascinated by lawyer Robert Rifkind's collection of German Expressionist prints and illustrated books
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1977· 1 entry
Was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i for the third installment in the BMW Art Car Project
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1970· 2 entries
Lichtenstein was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (within its Art and Technology program developed between 1967 and 1971) to make a film
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Lichtenstein purchased a former carriage house in Southampton, Long Island, built a studio on the property, and spent the rest of the 1970s in relative seclusion
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1969· 1 entry
Lichtenstein was commissioned by Gunter Sachs to create Composition and Leda and the Swan, for the collector's Pop Art bedroom suite at the Palace Hotel in St
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1968· 1 entry
The Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher acquired several major works by Lichtenstein, such as Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), We rose up slowly (1964) and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes (1966)
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1967· 1 entry
His first museum retrospective exhibition was held at the Pasadena Art Museum in California
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1966· 2 entries
Lichtenstein moved on from his imagery of the early 1960s, and began his Modern Paintings series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings
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After being exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1963, and (now at the Tate Modern) has remained in their collection ever since
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1965· 1 entry
Though he would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades
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1964· 1 entry
Lichtenstein became the first American to exhibit at the Tate Gallery, London, on the occasion of the show "'54–'64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade
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1962· 1 entry
The Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, held regular exhibitions of the artist's work
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1961· 2 entries
Leo Castelli started displaying Lichtenstein's work at his gallery in New York
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Began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing
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1960· 1 entry
Lichtenstein started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university
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1957· 1 entry
Lichtenstein moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again
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1954· 1 entry
His first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born
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1951· 1 entry
Lichtenstein had his first solo exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York
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1949· 2 entries
Lichtenstein earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University
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Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson, who previously had been married to Ohio artist Michael Sarisky
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1939· 1 entry
His last year of high school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York, where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh
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1923· 2 entries
Into an upper middle class German-Jewish family in New York City
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Born 1923-10-27.
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