Na Sotheby’s, Roy Lichtenstein começando em US$ 400

Sotheby's is auctioning a hundred works by Roy Lichtenstein, a leading figure in Pop Art alongside Andy Warhol, for up to US$ 400. The auction is divided into two stages: a physical auction with 23 lots on the following day at The Breuer, and a virtual auction with 120 works at lower prices, accepting bids until Friday. The virtual auction allows bidding on items ranging from Roy Lichtenstein's cover design for One Cent Life, a 1964 anthology of Pop Art, priced at US$ 400, to a pencil study (US$ 180,000) of his future work Blue Nude (1995).

The New York City auction is expected to fetch at least US$ 1 million for the paper-based study Interior with Painting of Nude (1997). The items up for auction belong to the collection of Roy and his second wife Dorothy, who passed away in 2024. Since then, Sotheby's has sold 270 pieces from the estate for US$ 176 million, according to artnet's site.

Roy Lichtenstein, born in 1923 in New York, studied fine arts at Ohio State and was influenced by expressionism and cubism before contributing to the popularization of Pop Art in the 1960s. He began incorporating cartoons into his abstract works and later borrowed elements and cartoon aesthetics to create concrete compositions, challenging the boundaries of art and American consumerism.

The auction is a preview for the Roy Lichtenstein: Like New exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on display from October 11 to May 10 of the following year.