With his enormously enlarged details from cartoons, Lichtenstein is one of the icons of Pop art. His work is characterised by bright colours, speech bubbles and, above all, the enlarged so called 'Benday dots', a technique used in four-colour printing to achieve shading and secondary colours. 'Mirror' is an exceptionally restrained and abstract work within his oeuvre.
Specifications
| Title | Mirror No. 4 |
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| Material and technique | Oil and acrylic paint on canvas |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Diameter Error: 92,2 is not a valid BCD value cm Depth Error: 5,5 is not a valid BCD value cm |
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| Artists |
Artist:
Roy Lichtenstein
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| Accession number | 2772 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1971 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1971 |
| Creation date | in 1970 |
| Entitled parties | © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2018 |
| Internal exhibitions |
De collectie als tijdmachine (2017) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The United States of America > North America > America |
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Roy Lichtenstein
New York 1923 - New York 1997
Roy Lichtenstein started painting abstract expressionistic works in the late fifties, but at the start of the sixties he turned to Pop Art. His first solo...
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