Nude with blue hair, 1994: Print from Roy Lichtenstein's Nude series

  • Nude with Blue Hair, 1994 is a relief print on paper made by Roy Lichtenstein from his Nude series

    Nude with Blue Hair, 1994

    Relief print on BFK Rives mold-made paper

    Sheet: 57 7/8 x 37 5/8 in. (147 x 95.6 cm), Edition of 40; plus 12 AP, 1 RTP, 1 PPI, 1 PII, 1 TGLimp, 1 A, 1 C

    ©The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

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    Roy Lichtenstein’s Nude with Blue Hair presents a cropped depiction of a female figure shown from the upper body, her gaze directed outward toward the viewer. One hand rests against her forehead while pale blue hair falls across her shoulders, contrasting with vivid red lips and a bright, graphic smile. As part of the Nudes series, the composition emphasises directness and stylised intimacy, combining bold contour lines with layered Ben-Day dots in varying scales to create depth, shadow and tonal movement across the surface.
     
    This relief print on BFK Rives mould-made paper is issued in an edition of 40, alongside artist’s proofs and workshop impressions, and was published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York. With a substantial sheet size of 147 x 95.6 cm and an image measuring 130.3 x 80.5 cm, the work reflects the ambitious scale and technical precision characteristic of Lichtenstein’s late print practice. Signed examples from this edition remain significant within the secondary market for Roy Lichtenstein Nudes prints.

  • “My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected colour areas suggests that my work is right where it is.”

     
    - Roy Lichtenstein
    Roy Lichtenstein transformed the commercial technique of Ben-Day dots into one of the most recognisable elements of twentieth-century art. Originally used in comic books to create shading and secondary colours through mechanical printing, Lichtenstein enlarged and carefully replicated the dots by hand, pairing them with flat, unmodulated colour fields in primary red, yellow and blue. 
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