In the summer of 1961 Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books so prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity ...

The art of Roy Lichtenstein, with his comic book-inspired images and vivid palette, has become so ubiquitous that it’s hard to remember just how radical the Pop artist was when he first burst ...

In 1993, a blockbuster Lichtenstein retrospective at the Guggenheim, some 200 pieces strong, sealed the painter's reputation as a prime instigator of Pop art. This week, another major Lichtenstein ...

With Lichtenstein's painting, Sleeping Girl (1964), setting a new auction record for the artist at Sotheby's last night, when it sold for $44.9 million, an exhibition premiering this month at the ...

Bringing the graphic devices of comic strips into fine art became Roy Lichtenstein’s trademark. ‘Crying Girl’, 1963, is a rare, early ink on paper drawing, which was made as a sketch for later use. It ...

Drowning Girl, an exemplary piece symbolic of the Pop Art movement, holds a prominent place in Roy Lichtenstein’s oeuvre. Acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1971, this 1963 ...

With their golden tresses and enormous eyes, the women who appear in Roy Lichtenstein's canvases are unmistakable. Following an exhibition of his famous "Girl" paintings at New York's Gagosian ...

This Roy Lichtenstein painting may look superficial and silly. But I’ve given it a minute and think it’s underwritten by some deep theological thinking. I’ve filed it, consequently, in the ...

What was pop art pioneer Roy Lichtenstein doing before he created celebrated works such as “Look Mickey,” “Drowning Girl” and “Whaam!?” Quite a lot it turns out, as can be seen in a ...

Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday.

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Roy Lichtenstein’s total sales are going up, and if ...

Shipboard Girl is one of Roy Lichtenstein's earliest Pop prints and marked the beginning of his characteristic style. In the early 1960s, he began to adopt the Benday dot system that was popularized ...