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Haystack #4,
1969
Roy Lichtenstein, 1923–1997; born and died New York, NY
Printed by Kenneth Tyler and, American, born 1931
Printed by Stuart Henderson and
Printed by Jeff Wasserman
Printed at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Printed by Kenneth Tyler and, American, born 1931
Printed by Stuart Henderson and
Printed by Jeff Wasserman
Printed at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
x1974-2
Lichtenstein sampled images from comic strips and from fine art, including the Impressionist paintings of Claude Monet. Haystack #4 repurposes one of the thirty or so paintings of haystacks that Monet created between summer 1890 and spring 1891. Monet’s Haystacks compose a series that depends on repetition as well as variation within sameness, themes that interested Lichtenstein because of their relevance to art and life after World War II. In the print seen here, Lichtenstein standardizes Monet’s already rather mechanized technique, turning the older artist’s discrete, methodical dabs into impersonal, mass-produced Benday dots. Lichtenstein’s Haystacks were the first prints that the artist conceived as a series, and they were inspired by his formative encounter with the 1968 exhibition Serial Imagery, which included Monet’s series.
Information
Title
Haystack #4
Dates
1969
Maker
Roy Lichtenstein
Printed by Kenneth Tyler and
Printed by Stuart Henderson and
Printed by Jeff Wasserman
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Printed by Kenneth Tyler and
Printed by Stuart Henderson and
Printed by Jeff Wasserman
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Medium
Color lithograph and screenprint margins on Rives BFK paper
Dimensions
image: 34.1 x 59.7 cm. (13 7/16 x 23 1/2 in.)
sheet: 52.4 x 78.0 cm. (20 5/8 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1974-2
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, bottom right: Roy Lichtenstein '69
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite, verso bottom right: workshop number /
bottom left: RL69-234
Numbered in graphite, lower left: 60/100
Reference Numbers
Corlett 68
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1974", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 34, no. 1 (1975): p. 22-30., p. 29
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 137 (illus.)
