The Heavier-than-Air Machine

1953

Roy Lichtenstein

Associated Names
Roy Lichtenstein

Artist, American, 1923 - 1997

The image is an abstract composition featuring shapes and lines. It includes horizontal purple lines in the background and various angular shapes in black, white, blue, and red. The arrangement hints at mechanical elements or a futuristic machine, with circular forms, intersecting lines, and triangular figures suggesting motion and resembling gears and levers.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein

  • Dimensions

    image: 31.4 x 38.3 cm (12 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 42.6 x 52.4 cm (16 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.56.22

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 23B

  • Copyright

    © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 23B.

2020

  • Finch, Elizabeth, Marshall N. Price, Scott Manning Stevens, Ruth Fine, Graham Bader. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1060. New ork: Rizzoli Electra, 2020, p. 135 (illustrated).

Inscriptions

across bottom of image in graphite: The Heavier than Air Machine 1953 signed '79 rf Lichtenstein state proof

Wikidata ID

Q75119314

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