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Portrait - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1989 - MyArtBroker

Portrait
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£23,000-£35,000Value Indicator

$45,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

$40,000-$60,000 Value Indicator

¥210,000-¥320,000 Value Indicator

28,000-40,000 Value Indicator

$230,000-$340,000 Value Indicator

¥4,340,000-¥6,600,000 Value Indicator

$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

16% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Planographic print

Edition size: 60

Year: 1989

Size: H 136cm x W 87cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Portrait (signed) is estimated to be worth between £23,000 and £35,000. This Planographic Print, created in 1989, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 16%. This work has an auction history of 9 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2008. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £25,634 in September 2023 to £28,511 in May 2021. 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
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
September 2023Lama United States
October 2022Sotheby's New York United States
May 2021Sotheby's New York United States
April 2019Phillips New York United States
June 2017Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Portrait employs a compact format and muted colour scheme comparable to Blue Faceand Green Facefrom the same series. Intersecting brushstrokes in eggshell, mint green and ash brown span the centre of the canvas. However, as opposed to the aforementioned works, Liechtenstein’s traditional red Ben Day dots and blue stripes are firmly incorporated in the main composition of Portrait. Additionally, a considerably enlarged flat sweep of bright yellow on the right hand side of the print, similar to the one featured in Blonde, bears the distinct cartoonish signature of the artist.

The production of this print combined a number of different printing processes, including lithography, screen print and woodcut. Beeswax was employed for the lithographs in this series, as an alternative to printer’s ink. This in turn induced a polished surface texture once printed on the exquisite watercolour paper utilised by the Brushwork Faces series.