Robert Mapplethorpe

Roy Lichtenstein

About this artwork

The American painter, sculptor and printmaker, Roy Lichtenstein, was one of the chief exponents of Pop Art. In his early years he specialised in using comic book and advertising imagery as the basis for his paintings. In the 1980s he began to scale up expressionistically painted sketches which he would then proceed to paint with precisionist detail. It is probably one of these paintings that Lichtenstein is standing in front of in this photograph.

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  • artist:
  • title:
    Roy Lichtenstein
  • date created:
    1985; printed 1990
  • materials:
    Gelatin silver print on paper
  • measurements:
    61.00 x 50.80 cm
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
  • accession number:
    AR00217
  • gallery:
  • depicted:
  • artwork photographed by:
    Antonia Reeve
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Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe