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© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Sweet Dreams Baby!
196537 11/16 x 27 5/8 in. (95.7 x 70.2 cm)
Roy Lichtenstein
American (New York, NY, 1923 - 1997, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color serigraph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1971.66
Location: Not currently on view
Edition: 46/200
Hors Commerce: 50
Printer: Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc. with Dawa Basanow
Publisher: Original Editions, New York
Portfolio: Eleven Pop Artists, Volume III (1965)
From the portfolio "Eleven Pop Artists, Volume III"
Gallery label text 2013:
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein first gained attention for his appropriation and elevation of the visual vocabulary of comic strips. Here he combines humor and drama with his signature Ben-Day dots, thick outlines, speech balloons, and cropped images.
Sweet Dreams Baby! was included in Eleven Pop Artists III, one of a series of three portfolios of prints by American and British Pop artists. Widely circulated in Europe, this portfolio was instrumental in generating international interest in the Pop Art movement.
Gallery label text 2013:
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein first gained attention for his appropriation and elevation of the visual vocabulary of comic strips. Here he combines humor and drama with his signature Ben-Day dots, thick outlines, speech balloons, and cropped images.
Sweet Dreams Baby! was included in Eleven Pop Artists III, one of a series of three portfolios of prints by American and British Pop artists. Widely circulated in Europe, this portfolio was instrumental in generating international interest in the Pop Art movement.
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: rf Lichtenstein
Provenance
Schuman Gallery, Rochester, NY; purchased by the Gallery in 1971
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Contemporary Prints 8/1/1974 - 8/30/1974
- Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
- Dimensions in Pop Memorial Art Gallery 1/17/2003 - 3/23/2003
- 1968: You Say You Want a Revolution 12/5/2003 - 2/15/2004
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Sheehan. American Prints from the Sixties. New York, New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery, 1989.
- Article Scope: Entry. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné Entry. Mary Lee Corlett. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalog Raisonné, 1948-1993. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1994.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Riva Castleman. Modern Art in Prints. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
- Student of Sophomore Seminar 285-01. 1968 You Say You Want A Revolution. Hamilton, NY: Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, 12/5/2003 - 2/15/2004.
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