Roommates, 1994: Print from the Nude Series

  • Roommates, 1994 is a print by Roy Lichtenstein featuring an interior scene and two roommates
    Roommates, 1994
    Relief print on BFK Rives mold-made paper
    Sheet: 64 1/8 x 51 1/8 in. (162.9 x 129.9 cm), Edition of 40; plus 10 AP, 1 TP, 1 RTP, 1 PPI, 1 PPII, 1 TGLimp, 1 A, 1 C
    ©The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
    BACK TO: NUDE SERIES
     

    Roy Lichtenstein’s Roommates is a large-scale relief print from the Nudes series, depicting a stylised bedroom interior layered with narrative tension. A reclining nude reads on a bed beneath framed artworks, including a geometric abstraction and a colour-blocked composition that echoes motifs from Lichtenstein’s broader practice. A baby blue curtain frames a window with blinds, while in the foreground a blonde figure with vivid blue eyes stares outward in apparent shock, her red lips parted and hand raised. Blue Ben-Day dots flow across the centre of the composition, partially obscuring both figures and creating a sense of depth and visual interruption.

     

    Printed on BFK Rives mould-made paper and issued in an edition of 40 with artist’s proofs and workshop impressions, Roommates measures 162.9 x 129.9 cm overall, reinforcing its ambitious scale. Published and printed by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, under the supervision of Kenneth Tyler and his workshop team, the work reflects the technical precision and layered complexity characteristic of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1990s print practice.

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  • "I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works." 

     
    - Roy Lichtenstein
    Roy Lichtenstein’s Nudes series is notable not only for its stylised comic-derived imagery but also for its ambitious scale. Works such as Roommates are produced at near mural proportions, measuring over 160 cm in height, giving the figures a commanding physical presence. This enlargement intensifies the impact of the Ben-Day dots, bold contour lines and layered colour fields, reinforcing the technical and visual authority that defines Lichtenstein’s late print practice.