Roy Lichtenstein — Still Lifes For Sale

Roy Lichtenstein Still Life Prints For Sale

Roy Lichtenstein Still Life prints for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York. The Still Lifes series spans three decades of Lichtenstein's print career — from the early 1970s through the 1990s — and represents his most sustained engagement with the traditional genre of the still life, filtered through his signature Pop graphic vocabulary of Ben-Day dots, flat colour fields, and bold black outlines.

The Series

Lichtenstein's still lifes are not still lives as traditionally understood. Where the genre typically involves careful observation of real objects — fruit, flowers, vessels, books arranged on a table — Lichtenstein's source material is the graphic representation of still-life subjects in popular illustration and commercial printing. He depicts not objects but images of objects: the visual shorthand of a bowl of fruit, a vase of flowers, a lamp, a pitcher as rendered in the graphic conventions of mass printing.

The result is a body of work that operates on multiple levels simultaneously. These are paintings about painting, prints about the history of printmaking, and Pop objects that use the vocabulary of still-life tradition to examine how consumer culture codes domestic objects with aspirational meaning. His Still Life prints with lobster, crystal bowl, pitcher and flowers, and figurine belong to a tradition that includes Chardin, Cézanne, and Matisse — and his graphic treatment makes that connection explicit while subverting it completely.

The series includes works of extraordinary range: from tightly composed single-object prints to complex multi-element compositions. The Geldzahler Portfolio still life and the Yellow Still Life represent some of the most formally refined works in the series.

The Still Lifes series encompasses a wider range of subjects than any other single body of work in Lichtenstein's print output. Individual subjects — crystal bowl, lobster, pitcher and flowers, figurine, portrait, red jar, windmill, lemon and glass — appeal to different collector sensibilities and decorative contexts.

Works produced across three decades show the evolution of his graphic technique from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s. Later Still Life prints tend to be more complex in their compositional structure and graphic layering.

Standard Lichtenstein screenprint condition considerations apply: UV exposure, flat colour field stability, dot integrity. Request a condition report noting any colour drift or surface abrasion.

Hand-signed examples command premiums over unsigned impressions from the same edition.

Corlett catalogue raisonné reference and publisher documentation are essential for all acquisitions.

Authentication

Roy Lichtenstein Still Life prints are authenticated via the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation catalogue raisonné (Corlett). Guy Hepner provides full provenance documentation for all works.

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Contact our New York team at 177 Tenth Avenue to discuss current availability and acquisition guidance for the Still Lifes series.