Roy Lichtenstein Before The Mirror (C.135) For Sale

Lichtenstein's Mirror series (1969–72) applies his Ben-Day dot technique to an inherently paradoxical subject — the mirror, which reflects everything and shows nothing in itself. By rendering the reflective surface as flat, non-reflective patterns of dots and lines, he created works that are formally fascinating and conceptually rich, interrogating the nature of representation and the relationship between image and reality. The Mirrors are among his most formally pure works — images that consist almost entirely of the formal elements (line, dot pattern, arc) that define his visual language, applied to a subject that foregrounds the act of looking and the construction of the image.