Shipboard Girl (C. II 6), 1965: Signed print by Roy Lichtenstein

  • Shipboard Girl (C. II 6), 1965, offset lithograph on wove paper, signed print by Roy Lichtenstein
    Shipboard Girl (C. II 6), 1965
    Offset lithograph on lightweight, white wove paper, 66 x 48.3 cm
    Edition of unknown size
    ©Roy Lichtenstein
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    Roy Lichtenstein’s Shipboard Girl (1965) is a quintessential Pop image that captures his engagement with romance, mass media, and the visual language of comic strips. Produced as an offset lithograph for a promotional portfolio for the Bellevue Art Museum, the work presents a close-up of a blonde woman, her expression set against a simplified maritime backdrop of ship railings and open horizon. The cropped composition, bold outlines, flat colour and Ben-Day dots exemplify Lichtenstein’s distinctive style, transforming a melodramatic scene into a striking graphic image.

     

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  • "Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting."

     
    - Roy Lichtenstein
    By issuing the work as an offset lithograph in an unknown edition, Lichtenstein deliberately aligned fine art with the mechanics of mass production, challenging traditional hierarchies between original and copy. This embrace of reproducibility sits at the core of Pop Art’s critique and celebration of consumer culture, making the work not only an iconic image but also a key document in the history of printmaking and twentieth-century visual culture.