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Roy Lichtenstein
Next Wave Festival poster at BAM (Hand signed and dated '97 by Roy Lichtenstein)

1983

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Roy Lichtenstein Next Wave Festival Poster (Hand signed and dated), 1983 Offset lithograph (Hand signed and dated 1997 by Roy Lichtenstein) Signed and dated '97 in black ink on the front Published by Next Wave Production for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Provenance: A Manhattan Estate located at 110 East 57th Street, NYC Framed included : held at original vintage frame Measurements: Framed 36.25 inches vertical by 24.25 inches horizontal by 1 inch Print: 35.25 inches vertical by 23.25 inches horizontal In 1983, Roy Lichtenstein was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music to design their publicity poster for the Next Wave Festival. The poster itself is normally unsigned; however, exceptionally, this work was hand signed by Roy and dated 1997 at his exhibition at the Nassau Museum in New York. Only a few months later, the artist died of pneumonia at the age of 73. This is probably one of the last group of posters Roy signed before his passing. The 'wave' motif is so iconic that the Lichtenstein Foundation uses it on their home page. About Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. —Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein’s (1923–1997) high-impact, iconic paintings have become synonymous with Pop art—a movement he helped originate—and his merging of mechanical reproduction and hand drawing has become central to the critical understanding of the movement. Born in New York, Lichtenstein developed an interest in drawing, science, and jazz music at a young age. He attended Ohio State University (1940–42), before being drafted into the Army (1943–45). Supported by the G.I. Bill following the war, Lichtenstein resumed his art studies at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Ohio State and graduated with an MFA in 1949. He stayed in Ohio for the next eight years, working first as a teacher and later as an industrial draftsman and furniture designer, among other part-time roles. Lichtenstein then accepted an assistant professorship in industrial design at the State University of New York, Oswego, which led to a teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers University, New Jersey. In 1961 Lichtenstein painted one of his first Pop paintings, Look Mickey. This work, in its use of cartoon characters and deliberate imitation of the Ben-Day dot commercial printing process, marked a major turning point in his career. Lichtenstein had his first solo show with Leo Castelli in early 1962—which sold out before the opening—and another in 1963. After this commercial success with Castelli, he resigned from Rutgers in 1964 and moved to back New York to concentrate exclusively on his art. Into the next decade, he depicted stylized landscapes, consumer-product packaging, adaptations of paintings by famous artists, geometric elements from Art Deco design, parodies of Abstract Expressionism, and war scenes and explosions. Despite their immense variation in subject matter, all of these works underlined the contradictions of representing three dimensions on a flat surface. The late 1960s saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He began living in Southampton, New York, in 1968, and in 1984 he acquired a studio loft in Manhattan; thereafter he would split his time between Southampton and Manhattan. In the early 1970s Lichtenstein explored formal questions further with his abstract Mirrors (1969–79) and Entablatures (1970–76) series. From 1974 into the 1980s he probed another long-standing interest: the concept of artistic style. He produced paintings that reinterpreted the forms and techniques of classical architecture, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and more. Lichtenstein continued to question the role of style, this time in consumer culture, in his 1990s series Interiors (1990–97), which included images of his own works as decorative elements in domestic settings. In his attempt to fully grasp and expose how the forms, materials, and methods of production had shaped the images of Western visual culture, Lichtenstein also explored other mediums such as polychromatic ceramic, aluminum, brass, and serigraphy. He experimented with printmaking as early as the late 1940s and completed several large-scale public sculptures, as well as a number of major murals. Lichtenstein continued to refine his technique and expand his subject matter in his later work, turning to such unexpected themes as the painterly gesture, the female nude, and Chinese landscape painting. In 1995 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contributions to American art. - Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
  • Creator:
    Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36.25 in (92.08 cm)Width: 24.24 in (61.57 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Not examined outside of original vintage frame but appears to be in very good vintage condition with minor handling and scuffing, scratching.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745213317232
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