Still Life with Coffee Pot and Flower Pot, 1974: Print by Roy Lichtenstein from his Six Still life series

  • Still Life with Coffee Pot and Flower Pot 1974 is a still life print by Roy Lichtenstein created in 1074
    Still Life with Coffee Pot and Flower Pot, 1974
    Lithograph and screenprint on BFK Rives paper
    Sheet: 36 15/16 x 51 15/16 in. (93.8 x 132 cm), Edition of 100; plus 14 AP
    ©The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
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    Roy Lichtenstein’s Still Life with Pitcher and Flowers from the Six Still Lifes series transforms everyday domestic objects into a bold Pop composition. The scene pairs a sharply contoured coffee pot, accented with blue and yellow, beside a simplified flower pot rendered in flat red and green with circular detailing. The background is divided between black stripes on the left and a cross-hatched green and white field on the right, creating visual tension and rhythm. Through strong black outlines and controlled colour blocks, Lichtenstein elevates ordinary household items into a graphic, architectonic arrangement.
     
    Executed in lithograph and screenprint on BFK Rives paper, the print measures 93.8 x 132 cm overall and was issued in an edition of 100 with 14 artist’s proofs. Published by Multiples, Inc. and Castelli Graphics and printed at Styria Studio, New York, this work exemplifies Lichtenstein’s exploration of still life as a subject within Pop Art, balancing flatness, pattern and spatial illusion in a highly collectible edition.

  • "Organised perception is what art is all about."

     
    - Roy Lichtenstein

     

    Roy Lichtenstein repeatedly turned to scenes of everyday life, transforming mundane domestic objects and interiors into Pop Art compositions. Coffee pots, flowers, mirrors, bedrooms and still life arrangements became subjects through which he explored colour, line and reproduction. By applying bold outlines and Ben-Day dots to ordinary imagery, Lichtenstein elevated the familiar into something monumental and conceptually sharp, challenging the hierarchy between high art and the commonplace while redefining how modern life could be represented in painting and print.