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Pop Art

POP ART STYLE

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

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Style: Pop Art
"Pears" original lithograph

"Pears" original lithograph

By Peter Dechar

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original offset lithograph. Published by Art In America for a special series of original lithographs in 1970, and printed by Triton Press. Size: 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x ...

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1970s Pop Art

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Lithograph

After Alex Katz - Sarah-American Dance Festival - 2011 Serigraph

After Alex Katz - Sarah-American Dance Festival - 2011 Serigraph

By Alex Katz

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Sku: CB1512 Artist: Alex Katz Title: Sarah-American Dance Festival Year: 2011 Signed: No Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 48 x 34 inches ( 121.92 x 86.36 cm ) Image Size: 48 x 34 inches...

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2010s Pop Art

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Lithograph

Galatea 4 - Tom Wesselmann Inspired Pop Art Nude Photographic Print Pygmalion
Galatea 4 - Tom Wesselmann Inspired Pop Art Nude Photographic Print Pygmalion

Galatea 4 - Tom Wesselmann Inspired Pop Art Nude Photographic Print Pygmalion

By Tortora & Travezan

Located in Brighton, GB

Galatea 4 is a vibrant C-Type Print on Fujiflex Paper in a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proof with Dimensions of 100cm x 150cm. In this tableau by Tortora & Travezan, Galatea lea...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Valerio Adami

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 188) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 11 inches (380 x 278 mm). There is t...

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1970s Pop Art

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Lithograph

Nude portrait study of unidentified male model
Nude portrait study of unidentified male model

Nude portrait study of unidentified male model

By Jack Mitchell

Located in Senoia, GA

Unidentified male model, photographed nude, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...

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1970s Pop Art

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Silver Gelatin

ROY LICHTENSTEIN I Love Liberty, 1982 First Edition Pop Art Vintage
ROY LICHTENSTEIN I Love Liberty, 1982 First Edition Pop Art Vintage

ROY LICHTENSTEIN I Love Liberty, 1982 First Edition Pop Art Vintage

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This original poster, created in conjunction with the I Love Liberty celebration taped on February 22, 1982, in Los Angeles and broadcast nationally on March 21, 1982, holds significant value as a collectible artwork by Roy Lichtenstein. Published by the artist and People for the American Way...

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1980s Pop Art

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Offset

Kusama Pumpkins (Set of Two)
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of Two)

Kusama Pumpkins (Set of Two)

By Yayoi Kusama

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Yayoi Kusama Set of Two Pumpkins: Yellow and Black / Red and White: An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka dot p...

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1960s Pop Art

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Resin

Same way twice by Craig Alan - Original Mixed Media

Same way twice by Craig Alan - Original Mixed Media

By Craig Alan

Located in New York City, NY

ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON ARTBOARD 30 x 30 inches - Original mixed media Painting on Artboard signed by the artist. Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally recognized for his ...

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2010s Pop Art

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964
Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964

Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite silkscreen by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), titled Sandwich and Soda, originates from the landmark 1964 folio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters). Published by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, and printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven, in Sandwich and Soda, Lichtenstein translates his signature Pop Art vocabulary—bold outlines, flat commercial color, and Ben-Day dot structure—into a crisp, iconic composition that reimagines everyday consumer imagery with graphic intensity and conceptual clarity. Executed as a silkscreen on Mylar over Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper, this work measures 20 x 24 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven, one of the most capable American screenprinting ateliers of the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) Title: Sandwich and Soda, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), 1964 Medium: Silkscreen on Mylar over Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Dimensions: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1964 Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Printer: Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven Edition: D Catalogue raisonne reference: Corlett, Mary Lee, and Roy Lichtenstein. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948–1997. 2nd rev. ed., Hudson Hills Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, 2002, No. 35. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1964 folio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), published by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Notes: Excerpted from the folio, This portfolio was commissioned and printed in an attempt to extend as much of the visual impact as possible of ten artists to paper and to make these prints available to collectors who might not otherwise have such a vivid slice of the artist. The dry surface of screening seemed to be most apt to translate the effect of their painting, both the flatness which is the unifying bond between the ten, and the insistance of paint on the surface of canvas so like the visible heft of ink on paper here. Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr., Curator of Printings. About the Publication: X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), published in 1964 by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, stands as one of the most ambitious and influential printmaking endeavors of postwar American art. Conceived under the direction of curator Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr., the project sought to capture and translate the defining visual languages of ten leading American painters of the era—Stuart Davis, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Adolph Gottlieb, George Ortman, Larry Poons, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein—into original silkscreens. Each artwork was created as an autonomous work that embodied the formal, chromatic, and conceptual principles of its respective artist. The choice of silkscreen printing, executed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., was central to the portfolio’s purpose: its dry, matte surface and capacity for crisp, saturated color allowed for a faithful translation of the painters’ flatness, surface tension, optical effects, and graphic precision. Organized and published by a major American museum at a moment of seismic change in contemporary art, X + X marked a turning point in institutional engagement with editioned works, representing one of the first concerted efforts by a museum to commission an ensemble of original graphics from the leading figures of its time. The portfolio captured the pulse of 1960s American painting—from Hard-Edge abstraction to Pop, Op, and Color Field—offering both a curated snapshot of artistic innovation and an accessible format that expanded the audience for contemporary art. Today, X + X is widely regarded as a landmark in American printmaking, celebrated for its curatorial vision, technical accomplishment, and its role in defining the dialogue between museum patronage and the burgeoning print culture of the 1960s. About the Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose revolutionary elevation of comic-book graphics, Ben-Day dots, commercial illustration, and mass-media visual language into the realm of fine art made him one of the founding giants of Pop Art, drawing on the breakthroughs of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to synthesize Cubist fragmentation, Surrealist wit, Modernist experimentation, and Duchampian conceptualism into an unmistakable style defined by bold outlines, flat industrial color, graphic reduction, and the now-iconic Ben-Day dot technique; emerging in the 1960s alongside Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein shifted American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward a cool, analytical investigation of consumer culture, mass reproduction, advertising, and the manufactured image, creating paintings, prints, sculptures, and monumental public works that reimagined romance comics, war scenes, cartoons, brushstroke parodies, landscapes, and art-historical citations while offering a humorous yet incisive commentary on how images shape contemporary life; his influence is immense, shaping artists such as Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, KAWS, Banksy, and numerous contemporary painters, designers, fashion houses, and digital creators, while his works are held in major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, Tate, Centre Pompidou, SFMOMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and LACMA, with his highest auction record achieved when Nurse (1964) sold for 95,365,000 USD at Christie's New York on November 9, 2015. Roy Lichtenstein silkscreen...

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1960s Pop Art

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Screen

Profile Series II, Peter Max

Profile Series II, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Profile Series II Year: 1998 Edition: 83/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper Size: 8.5 x 7 inches Condition: Excellent Inscri...

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1990s Pop Art

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Lithograph

Rip It Up and Start Again - Simon Reynolds Yellow and Red Music Original Art
Rip It Up and Start Again - Simon Reynolds Yellow and Red Music Original Art

Rip It Up and Start Again - Simon Reynolds Yellow and Red Music Original Art

By Carl Smith

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic, Screen

Heat Wave Duel - Abstract Figurative South Western Inspired Pop Art by Gary John
Heat Wave Duel - Abstract Figurative South Western Inspired Pop Art by Gary John

Heat Wave Duel - Abstract Figurative South Western Inspired Pop Art by Gary John

By Gary John

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

Galatea 6 - Contemporary Nude Pop Art Photography Style of Tom Wesselmann
Galatea 6 - Contemporary Nude Pop Art Photography Style of Tom Wesselmann

Galatea 6 - Contemporary Nude Pop Art Photography Style of Tom Wesselmann

By Tortora & Travezan

Located in Brighton, GB

Galatea 6 is a vibrant C-Type Print on Fujiflex Paper in a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proof with Dimensions of 100cm x 100cm. Galatea looks off-camera in this photograph, her v...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

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C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander
Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander

Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander

By Peter Alexander, 1939

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: Hallelujah II Year: 1988 Edition: 50, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...

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1980s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

"All Kinds of Love" original lithograph
"All Kinds of Love" original lithograph

"All Kinds of Love" original lithograph

By Claes Oldenburg

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1964 and published by Eberhard Kornfeld for the 1 Cent Life portfolio in an edition of 2000. Image size: 10 1/2 x 10 inches (255 x 250 mm). S...

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1960s Pop Art

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Lithograph

Dream in Colour - Pool Installation - American Blue Color Photography
Dream in Colour - Pool Installation - American Blue Color Photography

Dream in Colour - Pool Installation - American Blue Color Photography

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Richard Heeps Dream in Color 'Pool Installation'. A set of nine individual artworks, vibrant yet serene they take you on a journey through California & Nevada through the eyes of the...

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2010s Pop Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Glazed Pop Donuts - Color Drenched Framed Sculptural Dessert Still Life Pop Art
Glazed Pop Donuts - Color Drenched Framed Sculptural Dessert Still Life Pop Art

Glazed Pop Donuts - Color Drenched Framed Sculptural Dessert Still Life Pop Art

By Nelson De La Nuez

Located in Los Angeles, CA

As one of the world’s most collected, significant pop artists today, Nelson De La Nuez is a born iconoclast. Using his unique juxtaposition of pop culture and surrealism, blended wit...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Wood

Jakarta Ice Cream - Original Figurative Color Drenched Still Life Framed Artwork
Jakarta Ice Cream - Original Figurative Color Drenched Still Life Framed Artwork

Jakarta Ice Cream - Original Figurative Color Drenched Still Life Framed Artwork

By Fabio Coruzzi

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gel Pen, Graphite

Mao 97 (Feldman/Schellmann II.97), Andy Warhol
Mao 97 (Feldman/Schellmann II.97), Andy Warhol

Mao 97 (Feldman/Schellmann II.97), Andy Warhol

By Andy Warhol

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Title: Mao 97 Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen in colors on Lenox Museum Board Size: 36 x 36 inches Condition: Good Inscription: signed in ball-point pen...

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1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Roy IV.
Roy IV.

Roy LichtensteinRoy IV., 2021

$1,138Sale Price|20% Off

Roy IV.

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Slovak Republic, SK

A Hahnemuehle Fine Art Print, attributed to Roy Lichtenstein. Editioned 25.

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Mid-20th Century Pop Art

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

"It's a Sin to Be Tired" Pop Art Street Art Mixed Media Portrait of Kate Moss
"It's a Sin to Be Tired" Pop Art Street Art Mixed Media Portrait of Kate Moss

"It's a Sin to Be Tired" Pop Art Street Art Mixed Media Portrait of Kate Moss

By Gieler

Located in New York, NY

This piece depicts famous English model Kate Moss. Done with beautiful expressive colors and a distinctive street art design, this piece pops with energy and romantic beauty. Its com...

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2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Soccer Flower Ball with Vinyl Bag
Soccer Flower Ball with Vinyl Bag

Soccer Flower Ball with Vinyl Bag

By Takashi Murakami

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Soccer Flower Ball (2002) by Takashi Murakami Offset Lithograph on Soccer Ball with Vinyl Bag 9 inches (22.9 cm) Diameter Limited Edition of Unknown Size Signed with printed manufact...

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Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Leather

Andy Warhol 'Heart (Open Candy Box)' 1993 Vintage Pop Art
Andy Warhol 'Heart (Open Candy Box)' 1993 Vintage Pop Art

Andy Warhol 'Heart (Open Candy Box)' 1993 Vintage Pop Art

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Heart (Open Candy Box) is an offset lithograph from a portfolio of five Andy Warhol prints published by te Neues, now long out of print and increasingly sought after by collectors. I...

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1990s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

David Hockney 'Looking Towards Huggate' Pop Art  Vintage

David Hockney 'Looking Towards Huggate' Pop Art Vintage

By David Hockney

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This David Hockney poster celebrates the artist’s deep connection to his Yorkshire roots. Printed in Bradford, it features a sweeping view toward Huggate, a village nestled in the ro...

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Early 2000s Pop Art

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Offset

Pop Art art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Pop art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jack Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Peter Max, and Heidler & Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Pop Art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.