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Nude - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1989 - MyArtBroker

Nude
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

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Medium: Planographic print

Edition size: 60

Year: 1989

Size: H 143cm x W 86cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Nude (signed), a Planographic Print from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £17,000 and £26,000. This artwork has an auction history of five sales since its entry to the market in May 2015. There have been no sales in the last 12 months. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 60.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2019Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
July 2018Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2017Phillips London United Kingdom
October 2016Sotheby's New York United States
November 2015Sotheby's New York United States
May 2015Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

By bringing the exact moment paint is applied to a surface to the foreground of each work, the artist questions the conceptual premise of the creative gesture. Brushstrokes become vehicles, with which Lichtenstein comments on the formal qualities of artworks and the art historical conventions lurking behind these.

Interestingly enough, Nude does not set out to commodify brushwork according to Lichtenstein’s signature commercial style. On the one hand, Nude’s larger than life strokes are situated on a printed comic background. The familiar burgundy stripes and Ben Day dots speak for themselves. There are however no black outlines or block colouring present in this work.

Occupying the very middle of Nude are emotive energetic sweeps of salmon, silver, dark red, blush and yellow coloured marks. These expressive brushstrokes represent the complete opposite of the artistic approach Lichtenstein became famous for. The work keenly embraces the technical finesse with which he engaged in the process of painting itself, in order to expose the authority given to this artistic gesture in the past.

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