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Shipboard Girl - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1965 - MyArtBroker

Shipboard Girl
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£18,000-£27,000Value Indicator

$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

$30,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥160,000-¥250,000 Value Indicator

22,000-30,000 Value Indicator

$170,000-$260,000 Value Indicator

¥3,460,000-¥5,190,000 Value Indicator

$22,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

-6% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Year: 1965

Size: H 66cm x W 49cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Roy Lichtenstein's Shipboard Girl (signed) is estimated to be worth between £18,000 and £27,000. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £24,177, across 4 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £14,367 in December 2024 to £55,169 in November 2022. The average annual growth rate of this work is -6%. This lithograph print, created in 1965, has a strong auction history with 105 total sales since its entry to the market in December 2005. The edition size of this artwork is not available.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
December 2024Sloans & Kenyon United States
September 2024Sotheby's London United Kingdom
May 2024Bonhams New York United States
April 2024Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2023Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Akin to Girl In Mirror and Crying Girl of 1964, Shipboard Girl’s compositionis rendered up close. Lichtenstein isolates his female figure, a blissful blonde woman, presenting her in the context of an incomplete narrative. The scene is infused with underlying tension and only small details, like the life-preserver in the backdrop, hint at the woman’s circumstances. This particular manner of cropped storytelling persisted throughout Lichtenstein's career, peaking in his renowned Nudes of the 1990s.

In Shipboard Girl,Lichtenstein experiments with the fundamentals of the pointillist technique. The work’s abundant coloured Ben Day dots are retained inside defined outlines forming the heroine’s face, the ocean, and the sky. Lichtenstein makes use of bold and primary pigments, utilising vivid yellow for the hair, bright red for the lips, and harsh black for contouring. The calculated pattern signifies tone and texture in an otherwise flat picture plane. In the end, Lichtenstein relies on the viewer’s optical instincts to distinguish his painterly touch amidst the perfected mechanical finishes.