Roy Lichtenstein (after) - Kiss V

Roy Lichtenstein offset lithography (*) Reproduction of the work “Kiss V”, work created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1964. Luxury edition on coated graphic paper (250 g/m²) Printing 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, so it is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping 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 excerpted 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 popular art: commercial ads, magazines, comics…; as well as from the history of traditional art: Art Deco, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism (which he was involved with at the beginning of his career)…
Lichtenstein's work is characterized by its irony (it is something pop artists boasted about, sometimes disguised as snobbery 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 the abstract and use figuration. Moreover, a figurative style 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 reproduced 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.
New Yorker by birth, Lichtenstein lived in this city, the capital of everything pop represents, and in it he would die at 73, as an artist who sold paintings for more than 40 million euros.