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The source panel of Sleeping Girl. The painting is based on a panel from the romance comic Girls' Romances #105 published by DC National Comics in 1964. [1]On May 9, 2012, the comic painting Sleeping Girl (1964) from the collection of Beatrice and Phillip Gersh established a new Lichtenstein record $44.8 million at Sotheby's.
The comic painting Sleeping Girl (1964) from the collection of Beatrice and Phillip Gersh established a new Lichtenstein record $44.8 million at Sotheby's in 2012. [103] [104] In October 2012, Lichtenstein's painting Electric Cord (1962) was returned to Leo Castelli's widow Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, after having been missing for 42 years ...
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[5] Lichtenstein's sketch for the work was done in graphite and colored pencils on paper in a 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (12.1 x 12.1 cm) scale. [6] In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein produced several "fantasy drama" paintings of women in love affairs with domineering men causing women to be miserable, such as Drowning Girl, Hopeless and In the Car.
In Art Magazine's review of his 1964 Castelli Gallery show, Lichtenstein was referred to as the author of I Don't Care, I'd Rather Sink (Drowning Girl). [29] In 2005, Gary Garrels of the Museum of Modern Art wrote that the work is a "poetics of the utterly banal, of displaced ordinariness" resulting in an "image frozen in time and space ...
Swifties are such a hot topic these days, but 60 years ago, America had succumbed to Beatlemania. On Feb. 7, 1964, Liverpool, England’s beloved foursome, the Beatles — John Lennon, Paul ...
The exhibition history of this work includes three 21st-century exhibitions: Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, April–September 2001; London, Hayward Gallery; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art, August 2003-February 2005; New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein: Girls, May–June 2008.
The Chicago Picasso, 1967 In 1964, Pablo Picasso approved the construction of one of his sculptures, depicting his wife Jacqueline, to be erected in Kristinehamn (Sweden) at Strandudden by lake Vänern. Carl Nesjar was commissioned to carry out the construction. The Picasso sculpture in Kristinehamn Sweden was inaugurated in 1965, is 15 meters high, and is the largest Picasso sculpture in the ...