Oh, Jeff…I love you,too…but…, Roy Lichtenstein 1964, Collection Simonyi, copyright Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS2012
“The most iconic works of Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are widely known, reproduced, copied, and even parodied. However, the true diversity and complexity of his oeuvre is little understood, and the full scope of his career is largely absent from the existing literature.”(Roy Lichtenstein catalogue)
From 21 February to 27 May 2013, Tate Modern in London UK, will stage the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to foremost Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, this will be the first major “Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective” for twenty years, bringing together 125 of the artist’s most definitive paintings and sculptures. Built on new research and scholarship, the exhibition will reassess Lichtenstein’s work and his enduring legacy.
Masterpiece, Roy Lichtenstein 1962, Private Collection, copyright Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS2012
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) is one of the central figures of American Pop Art. In the early 1960s he pioneered a new style of painting, executed by hand but inspired by industrial printing processes. He became renowned for works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots, as an ongoing examination of representation and originality in mass media culture.
whaam! Roy Lichtenstein 1963, Tate, copyright Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS2012
This exhibition will showcase such key paintings as Look Mickey 1961 (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Whaam! 1963 (Tate), Drowning Girl 1963 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) and his monumental Artist’s Studio series of 1973-4. The artist’s rich and expansive practice will be represented by a wide range of materials, including paintings using Rowlux and steel, as well as sculptures in ceramic and brass and a selection of previously unseen drawings, collages and works on paper. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He died in 1997 aged 73.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is global sponsor of the exhibition. A fully illustrated catalogue has been published by The Art Institute of Chicago and distributed by Yale University Press.
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