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252:, 1964 (cat. 45). The subway signs he saw in New York inspired the hard finish and reflective surface. With the hard, slick enamel, Lichtenstein accomplished two objectives: he was able to move closer to achieving the look of mechanical perfection that he could only suggest in paintings of the period, and he reinforced the role of the two-dimensional image as an object. 199:
notes that this was an example of Lichtenstein's ability to "glorify the American woman by giving innocuous images of her generic concocted self and her roiling emotions such blazing formal power". Framing a small fragment of the image in the mirror serves an artistic purpose. "Extraordinary sections
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system and, in turn, they inspired his subsequent ceramic head works. Enamel facilitated a more mechanical appearance than even his paintings while remaining in two dimensions. After 1963, Lichtenstein's comics-based women "... look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if
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exists in eight editions according to most, however, "Clare Bell of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation said that inventory records for the Leo Castelli Gallery, where Lichtenstein showed in the 1960s, say that there may be 10 versions of the work, some of them original proofs". One edition exhibited at
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for sale without her consent. The suit claims that Gagosian fraudulently claimed the painting was damaged and sold it between August and December 2009 for $ 2 million, while charging a $ 1 million commission, rather than sell at or above the $ 3 million low estimate for a negotiated commission of $
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that is considered to exist in between eight and ten editions. One edition was part of a $ 14 million 2012 lawsuit regarding a 2009 sale, while another sold in 2010 for $ 4.9 million. Although it uses
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500,000. As a result of the edition shown during the summer 2008 "Roy Lichtenstein: Girls" exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, at one point the gallery was in possession of two editions of
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New York for $ 100,000 USD (hammer), May 4, 1987 at Sotheby's New York for $ 150,000 USD (hammer), and May 15, 2007 Sotheby's New York for $ 3,600,000 (hammer)/$ 4,072,000 (premium).
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they all came out of the same pot of makeup." This particular example is one of several that is cropped so closely that the hair flows beyond the edges of the canvas.
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On January 18, 2012, a suit was filed in Manhattan in New York State Court in a case related to two earlier federal cases. The suit alleges both lack of consent and
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One edition of this painting was the subject of a legal dispute involving 2009 sale without consent. Another edition of this work sold at auction at
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Very often a head is cropped to such an extent that the hair flows outside the borders of the format ...
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like many of his other works, but it was inspired by the hard reflective finish of signs in the
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in New York in 2008. There had been three previous auction sales of this work: May 5, 1986 at
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Coplans, John, ed. (1972). "Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology of Imagery and Art".
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like ... linking the falling hair to the semi-reflected face of the girl in the mirror (
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of the painting's condition. The suit was for $ 14 million, including $ 10 million in
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Between 1963 and 1965, Lichtenstein produced a group of works in enamel, such as
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helped inspire a series of ceramic heads, which he began in 1965.
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like many other Lichtenstein works, it was inspired by the
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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
pop art
Roy Lichtenstein
Ben-Day dots
New York City Subway
comics
Ben-Day dots
New York City Subway
Christie's
Gagosian Gallery
Sotheby's
fraudulent misrepresentation
punitive damages
Charles Cowles
Larry Gagosian
The New York Times
1964 in art
ISBN
88-435-7287-3
Praeger Publishers
"Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997): Girl in Mirror"





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