Roy Lichtenstein Haystack #4 (C.68) 1969 For Sale

Roy Lichtenstein’s Haystack prints were the first that the artist conceived as a series. Comprising lithographs with screenprinting and one with embossing, the series of ten formed an edition of 100 with each print signed in the bottom right. 

Throughout his career, Lichtenstein referenced and sampled images from a range of sources: from comic strips, graphic designs by other artists, to fine art. In this Haystack series, Lichtenstein reappropriated Monet’s Impressionist series of the same name, which he began in the summer of 1890 and completed the following Spring. Monet’s project used the singular subject of the haystack to chart the manifold and myriad effects of natural light from the changing seasons, depicted at different times of day in diverse weather conditions. Lichtenstein playfully captures this treatment of the effect of light on colours through a modernist approach that utilises the more mechanical method of screenprinting. The resulting prints span morning (Haystack #1) to midnight (Haystack #7).

The outline shapes of wheat featured in the nighttime scene Haystack #4 is almost indecipherable amid the colliding blue and red colour combinations, creating an almost purple hue. Lichtenstein’s Benday dots overlap on one another, evoking a stitching together of the singular dots, in the same way that a tapestry weaves together. The effect is a striking three-dimensional quality, cleverly achieved by screenprinting of individual dots. 

Lichtenstein infamously merged the arenas of traditional painting techniques with the more calculated commercial printing methods by creating hand painted and hand stencilled artworks that appeared to result from a commercial press, precisely painting single colour Benday dots by hand that resulted in a playful, wry visual trickery.

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