NEW YORK -- Big money continues to pour over postwar and contemporary art. At Sotheby's Wednesday evening sale, 46 works of the 57 that were on offer sold for $266.6 million. Gigantic prices were paid for paintings by the most famous artists of the second half of the 20th century. The three most expensive works were iconic pictures executed by...
A blond bombshell and a twisted male figure -- classic images by Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon -- tied for top price at Sotheby's on Wednesday night, bringing $44.8 million each. It was the second of three consecutive evening contemporary art auctions in New York. And although the Sotheby's sale was a more sober affair than the one at...
The world has changed since the last traveling Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, which opened nearly 20 years ago at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Pop Art has not only continued to capture the imagination of the public, but it has also flourished, helped in part by social networking, global connectivity and a universal fascination...
Roy Lichtenstein (27. oktober 1923 - 29. september 1997) var en amerikansk maler og grafiker, hvis tidlige og mest berømte kunst tilhørte Pop art-genren.
Hans billeder viste ofte forstørrede tegneserie-udklip. Kunstmuseet Louisiana havde i 2004 en stor udstilling om ham, og ejer selv et af hans malerier.
Han blev født i 1923, og opvoksede i New York City i et middelklasse hjem.
Han var en af de ledende figurer inden for Pop-Art.
Grundtemaet i hans værker var forholdet mellem billedetsform og indhold, samt billedet og virkeligheden.
Mange af hans mest kendte værker, er meget lig striber fra forskellige tegneserier, men han slog ofte fast, at de ikke var kopier.
Den kendte tegnserieforfatter Art Spiegelman har sagt om Lichtensteins brug af striber fra tegnserier som inspiration "Lichtenstein gjorder hverken mere eller mindre for tegnserier end Andy Warhol gjorder for supper."