Crying Girl, 1963: Print by Roy Lichtenstein

  • Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl 1963 is a print for sale pop art limited edition artwork depicting a girl crying and looking to the left handside of the work

    Crying Girl, 1963

    Offset lithograph on lightweight, off-white wove paper

    Sheet: 18 x 24 in. (45.8 x 61 cm), Edition: Unknown

    ©The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

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    Roy Lichtenstein’s Crying Girl, 1963 is one of the most recognisable images of the Pop Art movement, transforming comic book melodrama into a striking composition defined by Ben-Day dots, saturated colour and bold black contour. Adapted from romance comic imagery, the work encapsulates Lichtenstein’s early engagement with mass-media aesthetics and heightened emotional expression. 

     

    The composition presents a close-up portrait of a woman with vivid red lips partially concealed by her hand as tears fall across her face. Her gaze is directed to the left, framed by elongated lashes and smooth, dotted skin. Blonde hair flows across the background, articulated through sharply defined black lines, reinforcing the graphic precision that became synonymous with Lichtenstein’s early 1960s Pop works.

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  • "Pop Art looks out into the world."

     

    - Roy Lichtenstein

    Roy Lichtenstein approached printmaking the same way as painting, treating the medium as integral to his practice rather than secondary. Working with leading workshops such as Gemini G.E.L. and Tyler Graphics, he used screenprint, lithography, woodcut and etching to translate his signature Ben-Day dots, bold outlines and flat colour into precisely registered, editioned works. Lichtenstein often prepared detailed drawings or collages in advance, carefully controlling scale, colour separation and surface effects to achieve the clean, mechanical appearance that defines his prints.