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Bull Head I
Signed Mixed Media

Roy Lichtenstein

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Medium: Mixed Media

Edition size: 100

Year: 1973

Size: H 54cm x W 75cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Mixed Media

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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Bull Head I (signed) is estimated to be worth between £10,500 and £16,000. This mixed media artwork, created in 1973, has an auction history of two total sales since its entry to the market on 22nd October 2018. Over the past five years, the average annual growth rate of this piece is 3% and the hammer price ranges from £5,230 in October 2018 to £11,056 in April 2022. The edition size of this work is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
April 2021Christie's New York United States
October 2018Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Roy Lichtenstein rose to prominence as an icon of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Following up on his previous six part exploration of 1973, titled Bull Profile series, Lichtenstein presents three compositions in his related Bull Head Series of the same year. The prints in this series revisit the process of abstraction, making the realistic figure of a bull increasingly more unrecognizable as the sequence progresses.

Bull Head I is a partial depiction of the head and upper body of a bull. The work contains a minimalistic amount of technical details, wavering between realism and abstraction. Contrary to Bull Iof Bulls series, Bull Head I is only moderately figurative at this initial stage. Mirroring the soft focal point of Bull II, the illustration of the animal makes use of thick comic book style outlines. The left side of the work is accentuated in bright yellow and a small patch of Lichtenstein’s blue Ben Day dots can be observed above the cattle’s horns.

Lichtenstein’s Bull Head I integrates traditional painterly gestures with simple line cuts, a refined lithographic technique and the ready made marks of screen printing. The artist’s dedication to Pop Art is evident in the calculated disposition and proportion of the figure.

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