Roy Lichtenstein - Kiss V - offset lithography - licensed print 2004

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

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

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be tracked 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 from 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: advertising, magazines, comics…; and from the history of traditional art: Art Deco, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism (which he was involved in at the start of his career)…
Lichtenstein’s work is characterized by irony (something pop artists boasted about, sometimes masked by snobbishness or superficiality…), the use of Ben-Day dots (used in graphic arts) and industrial colors, the language of comics (onomatopoeia, panels, narrative) and the mastery of line.
Lichtenstein began in the fashionable Abstract Expressionism, but soon joined the rest of the pop guerrilla to rebel against abstraction and use figuration. Moreover, the more popular and mechanical a figuration is, the better.
Certainly there was nothing more popular and mechanical than a comic in 1958, so Lichtenstein decided he would create commercially produced images.
That said… what appears to be produced by a machine is drawn by hand.
These images were faithful portraits of consumer society and mass culture, which can be either 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 masking reality.
Born in New York, Lichtenstein lived in this city, the capital of everything that pop represents, and there he died at 73, celebrated as an artist who sold paintings for more than 40 million euros.

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