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Cathedral 5 - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1969 - MyArtBroker

Cathedral 5
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£10,500-£15,000Value Indicator

$21,000-$30,000 Value Indicator

$19,000-$27,000 Value Indicator

¥100,000-¥140,000 Value Indicator

12,500-18,000 Value Indicator

$100,000-$150,000 Value Indicator

¥1,980,000-¥2,830,000 Value Indicator

$13,500-$19,000 Value Indicator

9% 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: Lithograph

Edition size: 75

Year: 1969

Size: H 123cm x W 82cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Cathedral 5 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £10,500 and £15,000. This lithograph print, created in 1969, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9%. This work has an auction history of six total sales since its entry to the market on 19th October 2004. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2023Swann Galleries United States
October 2017Christie's New York United States
December 2016Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
October 2011Christie's New York United States
October 2008Christie's New York United States
October 2004Bonhams San Francisco United States

Meaning & Analysis

Monet painted at the site of the cathedral, capturing transient stages of light moving across the building’s surface over the course of two years. His quintessentially painterly approach stands in sharp contrast to Lichtenstein’s commercially influenced style.

Yet, Lichtenstein’s primary colours and Ben Day dots can be interpreted as obvious descendants of Monet’s impressionist brushwork. Similar to how Monet’s paintings dissolve into individual brushstrokes upon close scrutiny, so do Lichtenstein’s handmade dots. Evidently, his Cathedral series has the same visual quality in its eligibility as its source material, but is a distinctively mechanised structure; an expression of the 20th century. This modern approach is manifested through Lichtenstein’s bold colour scheme.

While Monet’s repetition sought to reaffirm the singularity of the Rouen Cathedral, Lichtenstein’s depiction of the monument in Cathedral 5 mechanises the subject matter. As opposed to the soft colour composition of Cathedral 1, the image is refined into contrastive black and yellow dots, highlighting the act of seeing over what is portrayed.