I Love Liberty
I Love Liberty
Signed Print
Roy Lichtenstein
£45,000-£70,000
$90,000-$130,000 Value Indicator
$80,000-$130,000 Value Indicator
¥420,000-¥650,000 Value Indicator
€50,000-€80,000 Value Indicator
$460,000-$720,000 Value Indicator
¥8,590,000-¥13,360,000 Value Indicator
$60,000-$90,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 250
Year: 1982
Size: H 98cm x W 69cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| April 2024 | Sotheby's Online | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2024 | Phillips New York | United States | |||
| February 2024 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| October 2023 | Matsart Auctioneers & Appraisers, Jerusalem | Israel | |||
| June 2023 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2022 | Karl & Faber | Germany |
Meaning & Analysis
Roy Lichtenstein’s 1982 I Love Liberty coats the image of The Statue of Liberty in a graphic layer of Pop and elevates it to the realm of fine art. The artist produced I Love Liberty in conjunction with a national television broadcast saluting American ideals and values.
I Love Liberty presents a vibrant comic strip composition, simplifying the Statue of Liberty to its basic pictorial elements. Lichtenstein depicts fragments of her majestic stance and fiery torch, enabling viewers to envision the rest of the original sculpture. Lichtenstein reduces her features into flattened blocks of colour and the background into a field of regularised blue stripes. I Love Liberty takes an omnipresent symbol and accentuates its banality by stripping it of its context.
Succeeding his Statue of Liberty rendition, Lichtenstein went on to explore various national icons. For instance, his Forms In Space from 1985 set out to reimagine the American flag. Ultimately, Lichtenstein’s configuration of a trusted sign challenges reflexes and intuition, while subverting skeptical views on commercial styles. The substituted visuals and the sardonic title are both indicative of the socio-political atmosphere of the 1980s. I Love Liberty manifests a brand new symbol; a brilliant refashioning of an American icon.