Brushstroke

1965

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

Leo Castelli Gallery

Publisher

Chiron Press

Printer

A single stylized brushstroke like a compressed W with a long stroke to our right almost fills this horizontal screenprint on paper. The canary-yellow brushstroke is heavily outlined with black, which creates the impression of shadows and texture swirling through the swipe of yellow paint. A few drops of yellow outlined with black suggest that the paint dripped down to our right. The background is a tight, pattern of small cobalt-blue dots against a white ground. The artist signed the work in graphite under the lower right corner: “rf Lichtenstein H.C. G.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color screenprint on heavy, white wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein

  • Dimensions

    image: 56.4 x 72.4 cm (22 3/16 x 28 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 58.4 x 73.6 cm (23 x 29 in.)
    framed: 76.7 x 92.2 x 4.4 cm (30 3/16 x 36 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.56.139

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Corlett/Fine 2002, no. II.5

  • Copyright

    © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; acquired 1996 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1994-1995, no. 25.

Bibliography

2002

  • Corlett, Mary Lee, and Ruth E. Fine. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. New York and Washington, D.C.: Hudson Hills Press and the National Gallery of Art, 2002, no. II.5.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: rf Lichtenstein H.C. G

Wikidata ID

Q75119367

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