£1,200 - £1,500
Rare Roy Lichtenstein "Look Mickey, 1961" Limited Edition on Metal.
8984 - Certified Limited Edition by the World renowned artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) titled "Look Mickey, 1961". This edition was printed onto a brushed aluminium surface specially developed for high quality fine art printing. The accompanying certificate which is signed by the "Master Printer" is on the same substrate, individually hand numbered and is one of only 100 published Worldwide. Float mounted and framed. Supplied with replacement valuation for £1500 along with biographical details on the artist. Condition is mint. The record for a Roy Lichtenstein original at auction stands at $95.4m sold at Christie's in 2015. In the 1950s, Lichtenstein struggled with an abstract expressionist style to find his own identity as a painter. Towards the end of that decade, he started to experiment with cartoon imagery, immediately setting up a dichotomy between artistic form and popular commercial content. By 1961 he had begun to incorporate into his paintings imagery from popular culture, such as comic books and advertisements clipped from newspapers and telephone books. "Look Mickey, 1961" was a breakthrough for the 37-year-old Lichtenstein and set the course of his career. Based on an illustration from Donald Duck Lost and Found 1960, a Little Golden Book owned by Lichtenstein's sons, it is considered his first pop painting (though it was not exhibited publicly until 1982). He made his rendering look like the cheapest of funnies, right down to its mimicry of three-colour printing, poor registration (the areas of colour do not quite fit together) and half-tone dots. Faint pencil lines show Lichtenstein adjusting pose and composition. Never in his life a straight copier, he sought to bring an aesthetic and formal order to his sources.. H: 73cm W: 103cm D: 3cm
