Title:
Foot and Hand
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present), Pop Art (ca. 1950s-1960s)
Medium: Prints, Lithograph, Offset
Year: 1964
Size: height - 17 in, width - 21 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, on recto
Edition: 300, plus unknown number of unnumberd proofs
Catalogue Raisonné: 11.4
Author: Corlett
Estimate: from $8,000 to $10,000
Seller's Description:
Colour lithograph on white wove paper
17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Signed on recto, unnumbered proof
Foot and Hand is a relatively early work in the artist's career, just a couple years after Lichtenstein began to gain notoriety for his paintings and just two years before his first museum retrospective exhibition was held in California. It was these early works that created the foundation for the Pop Art movement.
Roy Lichtenstein is considered, along with with Andy Warhol, as the father of Pop Art. Lichtenstein created works directly influenced from popular culture, specifically, the comic book. Lichtenstein often used cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing in his works. The result were works featuring thick outlines, bold colors, and Benday Dots (a technique often used in comic books), as if created by photographic reproduction. Though Lichtenstein often included the use of advertising imagery and reproductions of comic-book panels, his work was never an attempt to exactly copy. Instead, Lichtenstein’s work tackled the way in which mass media portrays different aspects of popular culture by taking common place images and transforming them into “high art.”
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