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After 1963, Lichtenstein's comics-based women "look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of makeup." This particular example is one of several that is cropped so closely that the girl's hair flows beyond the edges of the canvas. This is an
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Eckhard Schneider describes this single-frame style of art as stills suddenly halting a narrative associated with young women's predicaments, noting that "The private tone of the words increases the paintings’ aura of authenticity, like verbal snap-snots – an aspect especially apparent in the
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reads "M–Maybe he became ill and couldn’t leave the studio". The text and her expression jointly capture her continuing worry and anticipation. David Britt likens the work to Victorian narrative painting because Lichtenstein invites much speculation with the work, including the identities of the
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example of Lichtenstein humorously presenting a subject that might be crowded out in a newspaper with a sort of ironic self-awareness that relies on the difference between art and the rest of the world.
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Lichtenstein had a desire that his paintings look as mechanical as possible although he was a painter. Rather than selecting subject matter from photographs by an individual, he selected teen and action
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hesitantly voiced ‘M-Maybe’." However, Lichtenstein idealizes the appearance with graphic tension that separates the emotional subject matter from the apparent poise of the depiction.
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from his personal collection. By then, the going rate for a Lichtenstein was $ 6000 and Castelli estimated $ 12,000. Ludwig offered Lichtenstein $ 30,000 to purchase the work.
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sold for $ 1000. Prices for his work rose quickly. In 1965, German collector Peter Ludwig asked Castelli, what price Lichtenstein might accept to sell
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present and absent subjects of the work as well as the "nature of the situation". I.e, what might be holding up his arrival.
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Hendrickson, Janis (1993). "The Pictures That Lichtenstein made Famous, or The Pictures that Made Lichtenstein Famous".
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adaptations. As is a common theme among these works, she awaits a man in a vague but urban setting. The
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Lichtenstein's first solo show at The Leo Castelli Gallery in February 1962 sold out before opening.
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Coplans, John, ed. (1972). "Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology of Imagery and Art".
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152.4 cm × 152.4 cm (60 in × 60 in)
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depicts a blonde girl, which is typical for Lichtenstein's romance
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Rondeau, James and Sheena Wagstaff (2012). Rigas, Maia M. (ed.).
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This article about a twentieth-century painting is a
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I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!
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Index


Roy Lichtenstein
Movement
Pop art
Museum Ludwig
pop art
Roy Lichtenstein
romance comics
Engagement Ring
Blam
comics
thought bubble
comics
1960s portal
1965 in art
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN
0-8109-2356-4
Thames and Hudson
ISBN
0-500-28126-2
Kunsthaus Bregenz
ISBN
3-88375-965-1
Benedikt Taschen
ISBN
3-8228-9633-0
Praeger Publishers
Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN

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