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Seascape II - Signed Mixed Media by Roy Lichtenstein 1965 - MyArtBroker

Seascape II
Signed Mixed Media

Roy Lichtenstein

£13,000-£20,000Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$23,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥180,000 Value Indicator

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¥2,480,000-¥3,820,000 Value Indicator

$16,000-$25,000 Value Indicator

6% AAGR

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Medium: Mixed Media

Edition size: 100

Year: 1965

Size: H 10cm x W 63cmx D 9cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Mixed Media

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Roy Lichtenstein's Seascape II (signed), a mixed media artwork from 1965, is estimated to be worth between £13,000 and £20,000. This piece has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of 10 total sales since its entry to the market in March 2004. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £13,368, across 1 total sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £6,790 in November 2022 to £13,368 in May 2024, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2024Bonhams New York United States
November 2022Christie's New York United States
September 2019Christie's London United Kingdom
December 2014Christie's London United Kingdom
June 2013Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
June 2011Sotheby's Paris France
January 2007Binoche & Giquello France

Meaning & Analysis


Roy Lichtenstein’s intricate landscapes, moonscapes and seascapes works span over thirty years of his career. Time and time again, the artist would return to this innovative sequence to revise the means of landscape painting. As a result, his extensive project features several autonomous portfolios and individual editions.

Seascape II of 1965 is a screenprint and die-cut collage mounted inside a white painted wooden box with plexi front. Highly experimental in its use of materials, the artwork presents a fictitious and humorous waterscape. Stretched out at the bottom and pasted on the vivid blue backdrop lies a body of water constituted entirely out of yellow stencil. The rippled contours mirror the design of the prismatic sky, transforming a naturalistic setting into something entirely artificial.

The resulting scene shows a fully abstracted and static seascape at first glance. Despite a sense of overriding flatness, however, the reflective surface texture provokes sensory associations of motion. Lichtenstein applies plastic sheets of translucent Rowlux to ensure these spatial interplays, producing a playful simulation of movement. In no other adaptation of a genre was Lichtenstein as experimental with materials as he was in his landscape renditions. His quest to create optical illusions and plays on perception continued in his Mirrors and later Reflections series.

  • Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York, 1923, is a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, renowned for his comic book and advertisement-inspired artworks. His transformative journey from classical painter to Pop Art pioneer began with his iconic piece, Look Mickey, marking the fusion of painting with pop culture. Lichtenstein’s works, including Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Crying Girl, blend parody and satire, challenging the boundaries between popular culture and ‘high art’. With over 5,000 pieces to his name, Lichtenstein’s enduring influence resonates in contemporary art, his works celebrated in prestigious institutions worldwide.

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