Modern Room, 1990: Published 1991, by Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Room, 1990 is a print from Roy Lichtenstein’s late Interior series, created during a period when the artist was exploring the visual language of everyday domestic environments through his distinctive Pop Art vocabulary. Executed in 1990 and published by Gemini G.E.L. in 1991, the work is rendered as a lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint in colours on 4‑ply Paper Technologies, Inc. Museum Board, and is hand‑signed, dated, and numbered from a limited edition of 60, with 14 artist’s proofs. The scale and breadth of Modern Room blends architectural motifs with graphic dynamics that elevate a domestic scene into a compelling visual statement. 

 

At the centre of the composition is a stylised living space defined by bold primary colours, rhythmic patterns, and the simplified forms of modernist design. Interestingly, the corner of the living room space nestles itself at the centre of the print, emphasizing the architectural hinges that join the alternating colours and patterns of the walls, ceiling, and pale yellow floor. Cluttered around, a sophisticated curation of furniture elements (including a Ben-Day dot sofa with matching carpet,  bookshelves, and a lounge chair) is fondly outlined by Lichtenstein with bold black edges. Other than the pastiche of a Warholian portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, the absence of human figures invites the viewer to engage with the scene as a constructed environment, where narrative presence is suggested through arrangement and contrast.