Roy Lichtenstein (after) - Kiss V

Offset lithography by Roy Lichtenstein (*)
Reproduction of the work “Kiss V”, work created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1964.
Luxury edition on glossy graphic paper (250 g/m²)
Print authorized by the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

- Sheet dimensions: 28 x 36 cm
- Motif dimensions: 20 x 20 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always preserved in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) The painter and sculptor who extracted the comic to turn it into museum material.
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the key figures of American pop, and as such drew inspiration for his work from both popular art: commercial ads, magazines, comics…; and from the history of traditional art: Art Deco, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism (into which he leaned at the beginning of his career)…
Lichtenstein’s work is characterized by its irony (something pop artists boasted about, sometimes dressed up as snobbery or superficiality…), the use of benday dots (used in graphic arts) and industrial colors, the language of the comic (onomatopoeia, panels, narrative) and the mastery of line.
Lichtenstein started in the fashionable Abstract Expressionism, but soon joined the rest of the pop guerrilla to rebel against the abstract and to use figuration. Moreover, a figuration as popular and mechanical as possible.
Of course in 1958 there was nothing more popular and mechanical than a comic, so Lichtenstein decided he would create mass-produced commercial images.
That said… what is drawn by hand seems as if a machine did it.
Those images were faithful portraits of consumer society and mass culture, which may or may not be a critique of the contemporary world, an idealization or a satire of Western capitalist society.
That ambiguity between critique and admiration, between mockery and respect, is typical of pop art, which cynically plays at a masquerade.
Born in New York, Lichtenstein lived in this city, capital of all that pop represents, and in it he would die at age 73, consecrated as an artist who sold paintings for more than 40 million euros.