Bedroom, 1990: Print published 1991, by Roy Lichtenstein

  • Stylised image of a domestic interior.
    Bedroom, 1990, published 1991
    Woodcut and screenprint 4-ply Paper Technologies, Inc., Museum Boar
    Sheet: 144.2 x 199.4 cm
    Edition of 60; plus 14 AP, 1 RTP, 2 PP, 3 GEL, 8 SP, 1 C

    ©The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

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    Bedroom belongs to Roy Lichtenstein’s late Interior series, in which domestic settings are reimagined through his distinctive Pop Art language.  Created in 1990 and printed the following year by Gemini G.E.L, Lichtenstein culled home interiors from furniture advertisements in the telephone yellow pages that Lichtenstein collected, using the imagery as a primary source material. Here, the composition pivots around a sharply defined corner placed slightly off-centre, creating a subtle asymmetry that activates the space.

     

    Diagonal bands traverse the floor, offset by a ceiling filled with Ben-Day dots and flat colour. Familiar elements, including a curtain, framed picture, and table, are distilled to schematic forms that oscillate between recognisable objects and abstract graphic devices. A concise palette of greens, blues, yellow, red, orange, and black heightens the tension between depth and surface.

  • "The Interiors were an idea I kept having about the way rooms look in the yellow pages [ads] of the phone book."

     

    - Roy Lichtenstein

    Executed as a woodcut and screenprint on 4-ply Paper Technologies, Bedroom is hand-signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, forming part of a limited edition of 60 with 14 artist’s proofs. This combination of printmaking techniques demonstrates Lichtenstein’s late-career mastery, uniting the crisp flatness of screenprint with the textured linearity of woodcut. The absence of human figures, coupled with a focus on objects and constructed space, transforms the familiar domestic interior into a controlled arena of visual experimentation, reflecting Lichtenstein’s ongoing investigation of modernist space, mechanical reproduction, and the formal possibilities inherent in everyday design.