Offset Lithograph Roy Lichtenstein / Nudes with Beach Ball Copyright @ Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Vegap Printed in Spain 2007. Published by Fundación Juan March in Madrid. Nudes with Beach Ball was first presented as a poster in 1984 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in NYC. This version, printed in 2007 for an exhibition at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the key figures of American Pop Art and, as such, he drew inspiration for his work from both popular art (advertisements, magazines, comics...) and traditional art history (Art Deco, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, in which he was active at the beginning of his career)... Lichtenstein's work is characterized by its irony (something boasted by pop artists, sometimes disguised as snobbery or superficiality...), the use of benday dots (used in graphic arts) and industrial colors, the language of comics (onomatopoeias, vignettes, narrative) and the mastery of the line. Lichtenstein started out in fashionable abstract expressionism, but soon joined the rest of the pop guerrilla to rebel against the abstract and use figuration. And the more popular and mechanical figuration was, the better. There was certainly nothing more popular and mechanical than a comic book in 1958, so Lichtenstein decided he was going to create mass-produced commercial imagery. Mind you... what looked like a machine was reproduced by hand. Size: 68 x 98 cm. All posters have been selected by art lovers for art lovers. Collector's item. This item is shipped certified with a tracking number and carefully protected.