Roy Lichtenstein is one of the principal figures of the American Pop art movement, along with Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg.
Drawing inspiration from comic strips, Lichtenstein appropriated techniques commercial printing in his paintings, introducing a vernacular sensibility to the visual landscape of contemporary art. He employed visual elements such as the halftone dots that comprise a printed image, and a comic-inspired use of primary colors gave his paintings their signature “Pop” palette.
Born and raised in New York City, Lichtenstein enjoyed Manhattan’s myriad cultural offerings and comic books in equal measure. He began painting seriously as a teenager, studying watercolor painting at the Parsons School of Design in the late 1930s, and later at the Art Students League, where he worked with American realist painter Reginald Marsh. He began his undergraduate education at Ohio State University in 1940, and after a three-year stint in the United States Army during World War II, he completed his bachelor’s degree and then his master’s in fine arts. The roots of Lichtenstein’s interest in the convergence of high art and popular culture are evident even in his early years in Cleveland, where in the late 1940s, he taught at Ohio State, designed window displays for a department store and painted his own pieces.
Working at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1950s, Lichtenstein deliberately eschewed the sort of painting that was held in high esteem by the art world and chose instead to explore the visual world of print advertising and comics. This gesture of recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context would become a trademark of Lichtenstein’s artistic style, as well as a vehicle for his critique of the concept of good taste. His 1963 painting Whaam! confronts the viewer with an impact scene from a 1962-era issue of DC Comics’ All American Men of War. Isolated from its larger context, this image combines the playful lettering and brightly colored illustration of the original comic with a darker message about military conflict at the height of the Cold War. Crying Girl from the same year featured another of Lichtenstein’s motifs — a woman in distress, depicted with a mixture of drama and deadpan humor. His work gained a wider audience by creating a comic-inspired mural for the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair, he went on to be represented by legendary New York gallerist Leo Castelli for 30 years.
In the 1970s and ’80s, Lichtenstein experimented with abstraction and began exploring basic elements of painting, as in this 1989 work Brushstroke Contest. In addition to paintings in which the brushstroke itself became the central subject, in 1984 he created a large-scale sculpture called Brushstrokes in Flight for the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio. Still Life with Windmill from 1974 and the triptych Cow Going Abstract from 1982 both demonstrate a break from his earlier works where the subjects were derived from existing imagery. Here, Lichtenstein paints subjects more in line with the norms of art history — a pastoral scene and a still life — but he has translated their compositions into his signature graphic style, in which visual elements of printed comics are still a defining feature.
Lichtenstein’s work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and many others. He was awarded National Medal of Arts in 1995, two years before he passed away.
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Crying Girl Print by Roy Lichtenstein, Signed, Mid-Century, 1963
By Roy Lichtenstein, Castelli
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl 1963. Edition of an unknown number. Signed bottom right. Colors very nice with one area shown with a press te...
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Advertising Poster M-Maybe Roy Lichtenstein
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage exhibition advertising poster featuring the romance comics 1965 Pop Art painting M-Maybe designed in 1965 by the notable pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), dep...
Paper
1999 Roy Lichtenstein - Chiostro del Bramante Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
A beautiful and rare piece, this poster was produced for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, Italy. The exhibition was held between December 1999 and April 2000...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein "Temple" (Castelli Mailer)
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Mailer/poster published to announce Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes exhibition held at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery from October 24th to November 19th, 1964. Offset lithograph in co...
Paper
Landscape Mobile, Limoges by Roy Lichtenstein
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Jersey City, NJ
With landscape mobile, Roy Lichtenstein has designed a beautiful "art system" as a table centerpiece. Invoking Alexander Calder's standing mobiles, Lichtenstein termed this piece a "stabile." It is in fact a non-moving object representing a tall tree set in a green basin...
Porcelain, Resin
$900Sale Price|50% Off
Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Kiss Poster 1964 Original Ltd. #562
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Kiss Poster 1964 Original Ltd. #562 Offered for sale is a Roy Lichtenstein pop art poster from 1964 Original Ltd. #562 published...
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
$160Sale Price|20% Off
Roy Lichtenstein the World's Fair, 1964 (Roy Lichtenstein Art in America)
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Roy Lichtenstein designed the cover for this April 1964 issue of Art in America, depicting a “pop panorama” of the New York World’s Fair. A must have 60s Pop Art collectible. Medium...
Paper
$8,400Sale Price|26% Off
Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph for the St. Louis Art Museum
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph for the St. Louis Art Museum, 1981. Whitney Museum of American Art September 22 - Novemver 29, 1981 Organized b...
Paper
Original 1st Ed. Roy Lichtenstein 'As I opened fire.' Triptych Stedelijk Lithos
By Roy Lichtenstein, Dutch Textile Museum
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Includes the complete three poster set. All vintage originals, sold as-is, as shown. The cardstock is bug eaten, chipped, ripped, punctured and marred. But not trimmed! Listing is fo...
Paper
1984 Woodcut Lithograph Screenprint & Collage by Roy Litchtenstein Estate
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in San Diego, CA
Small and rare unframed woodcut , lithograph , screenprint and collage by the State of Roy Lichtenstain , two paintings ; green lamp 1984 . Introducing an exquisite piece of artistry...
Paper
1975 Roy Lichtenstein - Leo Castelli Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
A beautiful and extremely rare piece, this poster is for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in New York in 1975 and features Lichtenstein's ar...
Paper
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster Roy Lichtenstein Whaam! Tate Gallery London
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art gallery exhibition poster featuring artwork by the notable American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) depicting an iconic comic panel image of a military f...
Paper
1968 Roy Lichtenstein - Merton of the Movies Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning screen print on silver foil paper designed by the iconic Roy Lichtenstein. Created in 1968, this poster promoting a showing of "Merton of the Movies" at the Tyrone Guthrie T...
Paper
$3,552Sale Price / set|58% Off
Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968'
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono 1
Located in Chicago, IL
Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...
Paper
1969 Roy Lichtenstein - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster is for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the iconic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1969 and features an original artwork by Lichtenstein for the pos...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein "Paper Plate" Original Encased in Heavy Custom Lucite Block
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in North Miami, FL
Created exclusively for Barneys of New York by the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, the heavy and custom acrylic display box provides front and rear views of this master work. Stamped wit...
Acrylic, Paper
Roy Lichtenstein "Modern Head" Brooch/ Pendant, Sterling & Enamel, 1968
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
"It's the kind of art you hang on you, not on a wall." Roy Lichtenstein "Modern Head" Brooch/ Pendant. Sterling Silver and Enamel. C. 1968. Made by Multiples Inc., NYC. Overall gre...
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Own a Slice of Pop Art History: Roy Lichtenstein's "Six-Pack" Masterpiece
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Dronten, NL
Pop Art didn't just hang on gallery walls; it jumped off them and onto the most humble of canvases. This exceptional archival piece—a collage of six original screen-printed paper pla...
Plexiglass, Paper
1969 Roy Lichtenstein Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Poster, Framed
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Miami, FL
1969 Roy Lichtenstein Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Poster, Framed Offered for sale is an original Roy Lichtenstein exhibition poster dating from the Solomon R. Guggenheim exhibit w...
Wire
Roy Lichtenstein Limited Edition Screenprint in Colors Cow Going Abstract, 1982
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, large screenprint American Pop Art master artist Roy Lichtenstein titled "Cow Going Abstract" and based on his original 1974 work- a three-panel painting titled "Cow Tri...
Wood, Paper
Roy Lichtenstein "Composition Tapestry" Modern Wool Tapestry
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
-From an edition of 100 -Edited by Société Sedcome Éditions, Paris -One of the lesser-known yet fascinating aspects of Lichtenstein’s career was his venture into textile art. Beginni...
Wool
$23,600Sale Price|20% Off
Signed 1964 Roy Lichtenstein Hand & Foot Lithograph, Edition 265/300
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Roy Lichtenstein "Hand & Foot" Signed and numbered original Lithograph. 265/ 300, 1964. Iconic Image from one of the 1960's master of POP. Image area is 16.25 x20.75. Overall fra...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Poster, "The Red Horseman"
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Lichtenstein 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Poster, "The Red Horseman" Offered for sale is a Roy Lichtenstein poster created for the 1984 O...
Wire
Original Vintage Poster Merton Of The Movies Tyrone Guthrie Theatre Comedy Play
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Merton of the Movies George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly Minnesota Theatre Company Tyrone Guthrie Theatre featuring a stun...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein Pop 60's Art Pin "Apple C.O.R.E"
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Sharon, CT
A rare pin by Lichtenstein (CORE Button R.L.C.R. 1208, RL5050) for The Congress for Racial Equality. During the 1960's, shows and auctions were held by groups of contemporary artists in support of the Civil Rights Movement...
Metal
1982 Roy Lichtenstein - Sweet Dreams Baby - Colorado State Original Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring the beautiful artwork "Sweet Dreams Baby!" from 1965, this gorgeous poster was created to promote Pop-Artist Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at Colorado State University in F...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997): Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Print
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997): Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum screenprint in colors on smooth wove paper. Pencil-signed lower right, ; 1969; from the edition of 3000-5000, printed by Po...
Paper
Vintage Framed Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph Prints Stedelijk Museum - Set of 3
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Framed Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph Triptych "As I Opened Fire" Prints, Stedelijk Museum - Set of 3 This is a complete set of three off...
Satin, Wood, Paper
Common Ostrich Fine Taxidermy Object by Sinke & Van Tongeren
By Sinke & Van Tongeren
Located in Haarlem, NL
A unique hand-sculptured mannequin creates a one of a kind work of fine Taxidermy. Al the bare skin parts are hand-painted. This common African Ostrich is 2 meters high and built on...
Animal Skin
$440Sale Price|20% Off
H 22.25 in W 16.63 in D 0.07 in
Original Italian Art Exhibition Poster - Ferruccio Garopesani
Located in Miami, FL
Original Italian art exhibition poster by painter and designer Ferruccio Garopesani. Presented in 1975 at the Galleria International d'Arte - Diorena - Ascona, Italy. A native of ...
Paper
Keith Haring Apocalypse Exhibition Poster 1999
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage 1990s Keith Haring exhibition poster published on the occasion of: “Keith Haring: Apocalypse” November 4–December 31, 1999; Deitch Pro...
Paper
$1,595
H 31 in W 25 in D 1.5 in
Junichiro Sekino Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Girl in Kimono
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully composed and colored, limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Junichiro Sekino. This print, which is titled "Profile/ Portrait of Young Girl in Kimono", is signed and sealed/ stamped in red at the lower right. It was created in 1957 and comes from a limited edition of 100 prints (the exact number of this particular print is likely listed in pencil below the matt but we have not removed the print from the frame to confirm the exact number). An exquisite and rare/hard-to-find work. The detail in the girl's kimono is quite beautiful. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other Fine museums throughout the world. A version of this image can be found in the Harvard Art...
Wood, Paper
Lladró Rhinoceros Beetle Figurine by José Luis Santes
By José Luis Santes, Lladro
Located in New York City, NY
An innovative porcelain and metal creation inspired by one of the fascinating creatures in nature. Part of the Awesome Insects Collection. This origi...
Metal
$544Sale Price|20% Off
H 28.94 in W 18.71 in D 0.04 in
Original Vintage Poster by Bernard Buffet May 1958 Original Vintage Poster
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage poster by Bernard Buffet May 1958.
Paper
French Gilt Bronze Brooch by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A brooch in gilded bronze by French art jeweler Line Vautrin circa 1950s-1960s. The unusual model depicts the mathematical sign of infinity, on which appears in relief inscription of...
Bronze
Lladró The Lover I Figurine by Jaime Hayon
By Lladro, Jaime Hayon, Marco Antonio Noguerón
Located in New York City, NY
Glossy porcelain figurine designed by Jaime Hayon with a modern design and a red heart. Like all the pieces in Jaime Hayon's The Fantasy Collection, this creation arises from the fus...
Porcelain
$23,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 26.75 in W 31.5 in D 0.5 in
Signed 1964 Roy Lichtenstein Hand & Foot Lithograph, Edition 265/300
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Roy Lichtenstein "Hand & Foot" Signed and numbered original Lithograph. 265/ 300, 1964. Iconic Image from one of the 1960's master of POP. Image area is 16.25 x20.75. Overall fra...
Paper
1963 Etching Intaglio Print "Rivertown III" by Andrew Rush
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Etching Intaglio Print by Andrew Rush, " Rivertown III", 1968, American. 32/50 in the limited edition series. Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil. Rush, born 1931, Detroit, MI...
Metal
$2,560Sale Price|20% Off
H 41.74 in W 27.96 in D 0.2 in
Original Vintage Poster, 'Relax' 1964 by Rene Gruau
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Poster, 'Relax' 1964 by Rene Gruau The fifties were the last flowering of the golden age of the ocean liner, which would soon be usurped by the jet plane. During th...
Paper
$3,500
H 27.75 in W 23.5 in D 1.43 in
1966 As I Opened Fire Roy Lichtenstein Signed Litho Triptych Stedelijk Museum
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A triptych “As I Opened Fire” after the original in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. This set of three offset Lithographs in colors was done in the 1960’s and was printed in the Ne...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Taittinger Bottle 1985
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Sharon, CT
A rare piece of pop ephemera by the great American Pop Artist.
Glass
1989 Roy Lichtenstein - Museum Ludwig Koln Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
A beautiful and rare piece, this poster was produced for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Koln, Germany. The exhibition was held in 1989 and this promotional pos...
Paper
1984 Roy Lichtenstein - Jane Goodman Gallery Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster is for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the iconic Jane Goodman Gallery in New York in 1984 and features Lichtenstein's study for the artwork "No Thank You!". ...
Paper
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H 23.25 in W 23.25 in D 0.25 in
Roy Lichtenstein Masterpiece 1962 Signed Modern Vintage Exhibition Postcard
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modern vintage exhibition postcard featuring the artwork “Masterpiece” by Pop Art artist, Roy Lichtenstein. Hand signed in the bottom margin. Masterpiece is a 1962 pop art painting...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph "Before the Mirror"
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Roy Lichtenstein Lithograph titled "Before the Mirror", catalog number C-135, hand-signed, numbered and stamped. The print alone measures 30"x36" without the frame.
Paper
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H 56 in W 48 in D 0.1 in
1989 Roy Lichtenstein - Drowning Girl - Museum of Modern Art New York Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
A beautiful and exceptionally rare piece, this poster was produced for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, or MoMA to promote the artwork "Drowning Girl" by Roy Lichtenstein being ...
Paper
Pop Art Tapestry Rug After Roy Lichtenstein 6'2" x 9'2"
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Tapestry Rug After Vintage Roy Lichtenstein, Country of Origin: India, Circa Date: Mid-20th Century
Wool
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H 26.7 in W 33.75 in D 0.1 in
2007 Roy Lichtenstein - Seductive Girl - Fundacion Juan March Original Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
This stunning rare design was created for the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Spain in promotion of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective exhibition "De Principio a Fin" or "From Beginning to End". The design features one of his fantastic later pieces "Seductive Girl...
Paper
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H 35 in W 24.5 in D 0.1 in
1982 Roy Lichtenstein - Sweet Dreams Baby - Colorado State Original Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring the beautiful artwork "Sweet Dreams Baby!" from 1965, this gorgeous poster was created to promote Pop-Artist Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at Colorado State University in F...
Paper
Roy Lichtenstein “Drowning Girl” New York MoMA Print
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Austin, TX
Framed print by Roy Lichtenstein created for the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1989. This original poster titled “Drowning Girl” was inspired by a DC Comic and shows a girl drowni...
Glass, Wood, Paper
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H 33.5 in W 26 in D 0.1 in
1993 Roy Lichtenstein - The Kiss - Guggenheim Museum Original Vintage Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster is for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the iconic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1993 and features Lichtenstein's 1961 artwork "The Kiss". Roy L...
Paper
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H 26.7 in W 33.75 in D 0.1 in
2007 Roy Lichtenstein - Seductive Girl - Fundacion Juan March Original Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Winchester, GB
This stunning rare design was created for the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Spain in promotion of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective exhibition "De Principio a Fin" or "From Beginning to End". The design features one of his fantastic later pieces "Seductive Girl...
Paper
