LICHTENSTEIN: A RETROSPECTIVE. TATE MODERN EXHIBITION

21 February – 27 May 2013

The exhibition will be open to all for an advance open day on 20 February. 

Roy Lichtenstein

Whaam! 1963
Acrylic and oil on canvas
support: 1727 x 4064 mm frame: 1747 x 4084 x 60 mm
Purchased 1966© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Tate Modern is proud to present a retrospective of one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective is the first full-scale retrospective of this important artist in over twenty years. Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, this momentous show brings together 125 of his most definitive paintings and sculptures and will reassess his enduring legacy.

Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. The exhibition showcases such key paintings as Look Mickey 1961 lent from the National Gallery Art, Washington and his monumental Artist’s Studio series of 1973–4. Other noteworthy highlights include Whaam! 1963 – a signature work in Tate’s collection – and Drowning Girl 1963 on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The artist’s rich and expansive practice will be represented by a wide range of materials, including paintings on Rowlux and steel, as well sculptures in ceramic and brass and a selection of previously unseen drawings, collages and works on paper.

Room after room will pay tribute to his extraordinary oeuvre, celebrating the visual power and intellectual rigour of Roy Lichtenstein’s work. 

… a retrospective devoted to American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein had sensational reviews in Chicago and should look just as good at Tate Modern.

Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph

… is bound to have crowds queuing down the South Bank for a glimpse of his iconic comic-strip-inspired canvases.

The Times

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/lichtenstein