Roy Lichtenstein News
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Paying to restore a Rembrandt in Prague, sponsoring the season at London’s Old Vic Theatre, co- funding a Roy Lichtenstein show in Paris: It’s all in a year’s work for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Great music at the Governors Ball, the country’s top pitmasters and Dennis Hopper photos are among Muse weekend highlights.
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Records were smashed for Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and auctions themselves as Christie’s sold $495 million of contemporary art last night in New York.
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Andy Warhol’s 1962 silkscreen painting “Four Marilyns” sold for $38.2 million at Phillips in New York Thursday night, the top price in a $78.6 contemporary- art sale that concluded two weeks of semi-annual evening auctions.
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Richard Perry, president of Perry Partners LP and chairman of Barneys New York, was in his very red library last night when he pulled out a copy of Life magazine from 1964.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s widow Dorothy sits on the sunlit top floor of Tate Modern remembering the three decades she spent living with the pioneering pop artist.
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Roy Lichtenstein paints flowers and sculpts ceramic tea cups. Tom Wesselman does close-ups of red lips and belts. Vija Celmins makes hyper-real pencils and erasers.
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<p>Like many revolutionaries, the late <a href="http://search1.bloomberg.com/search?q=Roy%20Lichtenstein&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja" data="" type="" tooltip="" title="" target="_blank">Roy Lichtenstein</a> was at heart a bit of a conservative.</p><p>Superficially, his introduction of the graphic formulae of comic books into serious art looks subversive. Actually, as a spectacular new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern makes clear, everything he did was from the most highbrow of motives.</p><p>Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was -- as he kept insisting -- not so much a fan of popular culture as that austere thing, a formalist. He was also, if not exactly a late beginner, definitely a late succeeder. It was not until 1961, when he was pushing 40, that he had his breakthrough moment.</p><p>Before that, he had been living in the sticks, doggedly producing second-string abstract paintings (and listening, by the way, to Bach and Bebop, not rock’n’roll). Few of those early abstractions are in the exhibition.</p><p>Left, "Whaam!" (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein is already familiar to visitors at the Tate. </p> Source: Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2012 via Bloomberg
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The first U.S. retrospective of Chinese Conceptualist, architect and activist Ai Weiwei is at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It’s clear that his cultural significance far outweighs his artistic importance.
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The last time Roy Lichtenstein’s painting of a man peering through a peephole was sold at auction, in 1988, it fetched $2.1 million, a record for the artist.
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