Shipboard Girl, 1965
27 1/8 x 20 ¼ inches (69 x 51.5 cm.)
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was a central figure in the Pop Art movement, celebrated for transforming imagery drawn from mass media and popular culture into the language of fine art. Drawing inspiration from comic strips, advertising, and graphic design, Lichtenstein employed the techniques of commercial printing—most notably his signature Ben-Day dots—to create paintings and prints that both celebrated and critiqued the aesthetics of modern consumerism. His rigorous control of line, color, and form distilled emotional intensity into stylized, almost mechanical compositions, positioning him as one of the defining voices of postwar American art.
Shipboard Girl (1965) exemplifies Lichtenstein’s mastery of translating the visual drama of comic imagery into the realm of high art. Executed as an offset lithograph in colors on wove paper and signed in pencil, the work was published by Leo Castelli Graphics in New York, with full margins measuring 27⅛ × 20¼ inches (69 × 51.5 cm). The image depicts a glamorous, idealized woman—her gaze directed outward with a mix of longing and detachment—rendered in Lichtenstein’s hallmark primary palette and bold contour lines. Both alluring and ironic, Shipboard Girl captures the tension between intimacy and artifice, reflecting the artist’s enduring fascination with the way media images construct emotion, desire, and identity.
