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Roy Lichtenstein — Modern Room
Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Room

Modern Room presents a commanding interior scene rendered in Lichtenstein's signature bold graphic language, combining lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint techniques on museum board to achieve striking chromatic intensity and textural complexity. The composition depicts a modernist domestic space suffused with geometric precision, where architectural elements and furnishings emerge through the artist's characteristic Ben Day dots and bold contour lines in primary colors. This monumental work, measuring over five feet tall and nearly seven feet wide, demonstrates Lichtenstein's sustained engagement with the vernacular imagery of interior design and contemporary living spaces, transforming an ordinary room into a compelling study of color relationships, spatial recession, and the tension between commercial aesthetic conventions and high art aspiration. The multiple printing techniques employed here allowed the artist to layer colors and create depth while maintaining the flatness and directness that defined his approach throughout the 1990s. Created in 1991 as part of the Interior Portfolio, this is edition 60 of a carefully controlled series, with the artist's signature confirming its authenticity and status as a significant late-period work. The scale, technical sophistication, and subject matter place Modern Room among Lichtenstein's most ambitious graphic works, appealing to collectors who recognize the artist's mastery of printmaking and his enduring investigation into how modernist design principles could be reimagined through popular visual language. The work exemplifies the convergence of contemporary interior culture and fine art that preoccupied Lichtenstein during this productive decade.

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Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Room, 1991 Interior Portfolio, (Corlett 252), 1991, Signed, Original lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint on museum board, Edition 60, 56 1/8" x 80 11/16" Sheet Size, 50 11/16" x 74 11/16" Image Size

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Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Room

Modern Room presents a commanding interior scene rendered in Lichtenstein's signature bold graphic language, combining lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint techniques on museum board to achieve striking chromatic intensity and textural complexity. The composition depicts a modernist domestic space suffused with geometric precision, where architectural elements and furnishings emerge through the artist's characteristic Ben Day dots and bold contour lines in primary colors. This monumental work, measuring over five feet tall and nearly seven feet wide, demonstrates Lichtenstein's sustained engagement with the vernacular imagery of interior design and contemporary living spaces, transforming an ordinary room into a compelling study of color relationships, spatial recession, and the tension between commercial aesthetic conventions and high art aspiration. The multiple printing techniques employed here allowed the artist to layer colors and create depth while maintaining the flatness and directness that defined his approach throughout the 1990s. Created in 1991 as part of the Interior Portfolio, this is edition 60 of a carefully controlled series, with the artist's signature confirming its authenticity and status as a significant late-period work. The scale, technical sophistication, and subject matter place Modern Room among Lichtenstein's most ambitious graphic works, appealing to collectors who recognize the artist's mastery of printmaking and his enduring investigation into how modernist design principles could be reimagined through popular visual language. The work exemplifies the convergence of contemporary interior culture and fine art that preoccupied Lichtenstein during this productive decade.

Medium
Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Room, 1991 Interior Portfolio, (Corlett 252), 1991, Signed, Original lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint on museum board, Edition 60, 56 1/8" x 80 11/16" Sheet Size, 50 11/16" x 74 11/16" Image Size
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Georgetown Frame Shoppe, Washington, D.C., United States

Related themes

Geometric, Living Artist, 20th Century, Blue Chip, Commercial Art, Bold Color, Vibrant, American, Modernist, Printmaking, Screenprint, Interior, Pop Art, Large Format, Limited Edition, Works on Paper, Woodcut, Design, Architecture, Lithograph

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Collected by

Sebastián In Situ, Brian Stevens, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo