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Roy Lichtenstein - Drowning Girl, 1963
Date of creation: 2024
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: Open
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditions and never displayed
This triptych is formed by three skate decks made of 7 ply grade A Canadian maple wood.
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, 2024, all rights reserved
Drowning Girl (1963) is one of Roy Lichtenstein’s most iconic works, presenting a woman drowning in despair, trapped in water, and gazing at the viewer with a look of anguish. The piece is inspired by a comic book panel from the 1960s, specifically from a series titled Run for Love! published in The Heroic Adventures of the Drowning Girl, a romantic comic series by DC Comics. Lichtenstein did not simply reproduce this image, but rather reinterpreted it with his personal touch, transforming a scene of romantic melodrama into a meditation on the superficiality of popular emotions and their appropriation in consumer culture.
Using his signature Ben-Day dot technique, the work moves away from the original melodrama to make a deeper reflection on how the media manipulates emotions. The protagonist, seemingly trapped in a romantic drama, becomes a symbol of how human emotions are presented in an aesthetic but empty manner in the media, creating an ironic contrast with the gravity of the moment.
Lichtenstein challenges art conventions by elevating comics to an artistic level, questioning the line between "high" and "low" art, and reflecting on the role of consumer culture in how we relate to suffering and emotions. Drowning Girl is a critique of how comics, film, and other popular media trivialize emotions, turning them into something easily digestible and consumable for the audience.
Over the years, this work has been considered not only one of the most representative of Pop Art, but also a profound commentary on mass culture and the consumption of emotions— a piece that continues to speak to the viewer today, beyond its original context.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, into a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Milton Lichtenstein, was a successful real estate broker, and his mother, Beatrice, was a homemaker with an interest in art. This comfortable environment, rich in cultural stimuli, allowed Roy to develop an early interest in drawing, jazz, and science fiction—interests that would permeate much of his later work.
He attended the Franklin School for Boys in Manhattan and later the Ohio State University, where he studied fine arts. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the U.S. Army. Upon returning, he resumed his education and began teaching at various institutions, including Rutgers University, where he met Allan Kaprow, one of the precursors of performance art. This meeting helped shape Lichtenstein's thoughts on the boundaries of art.
In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein took a dramatic turn in his artistic direction. Tired of the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, which he saw as overly serious and emotionally saturated, he began experimenting with comic book imagery. His 1961 piece Look Mickey marked a watershed moment: it featured a recognizable cartoon image rendered with hand-painted Ben-Day dots, a technique used in commercial printing to create shading and color variation.
From this point on, Lichtenstein developed an unmistakable style characterized by bold outlines, flat colors, and the use of dots to mimic the appearance of printed comics. His work was both a celebration and a critique of mass media and consumer culture. Paintings like Whaam! (1963) and Drowning Girl (1963) are now icons of the Pop Art movement, juxtaposing melodrama with mechanical precision.
One of Lichtenstein's greatest contributions was his ability to transform banal, everyday imagery into works of high art, forcing viewers to confront the line between commercial and fine art. His work was not without controversy; critics accused him of plagiarizing comic artists, but Lichtenstein always defended his reinterpretations as transformative and conceptual.
Over the following decades, Lichtenstein expanded his scope, venturing into sculptures, murals, and reinterpretations of works by other artists, such as Picasso, Monet, and van Gogh. His Brushstrokes series (1965-1966) cleverly mimicked the gestural marks of Abstract Expressionism but rendered them in his mechanical style, parodying the very movement that once dominated the art world.
In the 1980s and 90s, Lichtenstein continued to innovate, creating large-scale public artworks and exploring themes like art deco, surrealism, and the history of painting itself. He also created pieces that commented on the artifice of perspective and the illusionism of space, always through his characteristic lens of irony and detachment.
Roy Lichtenstein passed away in 1997, but his legacy remains profound. His works are part of major collections around the world, from MoMA in New York to the Tate Modern in London. His influence can be seen in advertising, graphic design, and even digital culture, cementing him as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Through humor, clarity, and a touch of provocation, Lichtenstein redefined what art could be. He transformed the mundane into the monumental and taught generations to see the extraordinary within the ordinary.
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