Roy Lichtenstein, Nudes Series
16 Feb - 30 Apr 2020
Based on 'Love' and 'Girl' comic-book illustrations, not live models, Nudes Series published in 1994 were artist's first images of the subject. Soon thereafter he explored the theme in his paintings. The series, which consist of six images and three states, also contains iconographic references to others of his earlier works: The Mirrors, Imperfects, Waterlilies, and Interiors.
Nude Series comprise of nine screenprints were produced at Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York and are recorded in the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of the artist's prints (Corlett). As well as using hand-cut stencils to produce his trademark Benday dots in irregularly shaped pieces, Lichtenstein employed computer-generated dye-cut stencils, produced by Swan Engraving, for some of the areas of dots and patterns in these prints.
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