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

Offset Lithography by Roy Lichtenstein (*)
Reproduction of the work “Kiss V”, created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1964.
Luxurious edition on glossy art 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 stored in a professional art folder, and is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be sent 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 plundered 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: advertisements, magazines, comics…; and from the history of traditional art: Art Deco, cubism, abstract expressionism (in which he was involved at the start of his career)…
Lichtenstein’s work is characterized by its irony (it's something pop artists boasted about, sometimes disguised as snobbishness or superficiality…), the use of Benday dots (used in graphic arts) and industrial colors, the language of comics (onomatopoeia, panels, narrative) and mastery of line.
Lichtenstein began in the fashionable abstract expressionism, but soon joined the rest of the pop guerrilla to rebel against abstraction and to use figurative imagery. Moreover, the more popular and mechanical the figurative, the better.
Of course, in 1958 there was nothing more popular and mechanical than a comic, so Lichtenstein decided he would create commercially produced images.
That said… what is reproduced by hand is what it seems a machine did.
These 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 masquerade.
Born in New York, Lichtenstein lived in this city, the capital of everything that pop represents, and in it he would die at 73, celebrated as an artist who sold paintings for over 40 million euros.