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Top of the Pop
With Pop Art taking center stage at several museums around the world, we’re very excited to debut our latest special auction, Top of the Pop: Prints.
From Andy Warhol to Roy Lichtenstein and Ed Ruscha, be prepared to see some of the most fabulous Pop Art ever created.
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Lichtenstein Retrospective
“The one thing everyone hated was commercial art; apparently they didn’t hate that enough, either.” -Roy Lichtenstein
New York-born artist Roy Lichtenstein was motivated to create works that no one would want to hang on their walls. However, a solo show of such works at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1962 garnered him critical acclaim and notoriety in the art world.
Most of his best-known images come from this period in the mid-1960s, including his comic book pictures. However, surprisingly, there aren’t that many of them; these works fill only one room at the new Lichtenstein retrospective at London’s Tate Modern.
Lichtenstein also tried to apply his comic book style to all kinds of art that weren’t Pop at all. This included his own versions of works by predecessors such as Monet and Picasso, and of themes including the nude, classical Chinese painting, and geometrical abstraction.
Lichtenstein: A Retrospective is on view at Tate Modern, in Bankside, London, from February 21 to May 27.
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The End
Friday, December 21 marks the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. On this day, doomsayers believe the world will end.
For those of you that aren’t bothered by this prediction, here are some art events to enjoy this week.Pictured is Roy Lichtenstein’s 1967 work entitled Explosion.
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Gunter Sachs
A new exhibition in Munich’s Museum Villa Stuck takes you inside the collection of enfant terrible Gunter Sachs. His extensive art collection included work by Andy Warhol, Jean Fautrier, Roy Lichtenstein, and Yves Klein. The exhibition also showcases three portraits Warhol created of Sachs’ famous sex-bomb ex-wife, Brigitte Bardot.
Die Sammlung Gunter Sachs runs from October 18, 2012 through January 20, 2013.
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Lost Lichtenstein Returned
A painting by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has been miraculously found in a New York warehouse after 40 years!
Electric Cord (1961) disappeared from New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery in 1970, after being sent out to be cleaned. The work re-emerged this summer when Barbara Castelli was notified by the Lichtenstein Foundation that someone was trying to sell it.
At a press conference yesterday, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI confirmed that Electric Cord has finally been returned to Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, the widow of art dealer Leo Castelli.
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Inaugural Print
Roy Lichtenstein’s Inaugural Print (1977) was created for the Democratic National Committee, for the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. As such, it was never offered for sale in galleries, but was given (or sold) to top donors to the Democratic National Committee.
Check out our Political Pop sale.
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POLITICAL POP
We’re getting into the spirit of tonight’s debate, and celebrating the upcoming presidential election with Political Pop, an amazing sale featuring over 30 artworks with political subjects by iconic Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg!
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One Cent Life
One Cent Life, this complete portfolio written by Walasse Ting, is widely considered to be a masterpiece of the Pop Art era!
Featuring classic hand signed color lithographs on Rives BFK paper from major luminaries of the Pop Art and COBRA movements, this portfolio includes work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, and Tom Wesselmann!
Of particular importance are Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever and Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl With Spray Can, which are two of the most iconic Pop Art prints ever created.
One Cent Life is only on artnet Auctions for two more days. Place your bid.
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The Oval Office
The Oval Office is one of Roy Lichtenstein’s most desirable, iconic, and current prints!
The work was created in 1992, for the Artists for Freedom of Expression Project, to benefit the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Citizen Vote, and select candidates in that year’s election. The image was also reproduced as a campaign button.
In creating this magnificent print, Lichtenstein researched the interior of the Oval Office in the White House, incorporating some authentic decorative details, including paintings that had once hung there!
Place your bid on artnet Auctions.
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“Lost” Lichtenstein Resurfaces
A painting by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has been miraculously found in a New York warehouse after 40 years!
Electric Cord (1961) disappeared from New York’s Leo Castelli gallery in 1970, after being sent out to be cleaned. The work re-emerged last week when Barbara Castelli was notified by the Lichtenstein Foundation that someone was trying to sell it.
Lawyers for Barbara Castelli, who inherited the gallery after her husband’s death, say the painting is worth US$4 million.
However, a judge has issued a temporary order barring the artwork from being removed from the warehouse.
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The BMW Art Car
BMW has commissioned famous artists to decorate their cars since the 1970s, and now the full BMW art car collection is going on display for the London 2012 Festival!
Among the first artists to paint BMWs were Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.
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Comparing Tonight’s Contemporary Art Stars
In time for Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, we used our artnet Analytics tool to highlight four of the artists staring in the sale: Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean-Michel Basquiat!
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Lichtenstein Retrospective in Chicago
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective opens today at The Art Institute of Chicago: “More than 160 works—from the familiar to the completely unexpected, including never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and sculpture—present a profound exploration of Lichtenstein’s signature style and its myriad applications.”
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Happy Birthday, Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) wasn’t just an Academy Award-nominated actor, director, screenwriter, and notorious bad boy. He was also a visual artist who created acclaimed photographs, paintings, prints, and even the cover art for the Ike & Tina Turner/Phil Spector collaboration, River Deep—Mountain High.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hopper’s photographs have a casually cinematic quality to them, whether focusing on his famous friends and fellow artists—such as these portraits of James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol (and that’s Warhol’s portrait of Hopper, top left)—or strangers, as in his iconic Biker Couple (1961).
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Contemporary Sales in New York
Preview the important Contemporary sales that take place in New York today, such as Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby’s, featuring works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Christopher Wool, and many others.
Christies’s is also hosting important Contemporary sales today:
