Roy Lichtenstein Mao (C.104) 1971 For Sale

  • Roy Lichtenstein Mao For Sale

    Roy Lichtenstein Mao

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    Catalogue Title Mao
    Year 1971
    Size 26 13/16 x 20 1/8 in. (68.1 x 51 cm)
    Medium Lithograph on Arches paper
    Edition Edition of 150 plus unknown number of AP (inscribed [A/P] and numbered in roman numerals)
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  • Roy Lichtenstein Mao (Corlett 104)

    "Created before the famed Mao silkscreen by his pop art contemporary, Warhol, this robust take on Chairman Mao Zedong is crafted from Lichtenstein’s artistic signatures: bold red and black colour palette, graphic outlines and ben day dots."

    Roy Lichtenstein’s Mao, 1971 is the pop artist’s rendition of the famous Chinese revolutionary, created to be the cover for his novelist friend, Frederic Tuten’s first book, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. Lichtenstein’s distinctive version of Mao is a pop lithograph, a signed edition of 150.
    Roy Lichtenstein’s Mao, 1971 is the pop artist’s rendition of the famous Chinese revolutionary, created to be the cover for his novelist friend, Frederic Tuten’s first book, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. Lichtenstein’s distinctive version of Mao is a pop lithograph, a signed edition of 150.
    Created before the famed Mao silkscreen by his pop art contemporary, Warhol, this robust take on Chairman Mao Zedong is crafted from Lichtenstein’s artistic signatures: bold red and black colour palette, graphic outlines and ben day dots.
    The unique take on Mao was an artful collaboration between the two American creatives, Lichtenstein and Tuten, who both feature collages, appropriated materials and juxtaposition of themes in their work, and Tuten even sat for the artist as the model for the drawing. Reflective of Lichtenstein’s trademark humour, he subverts Tuten’s image and altered the drawing, so Mao is caught laughing in the screenprint.
    In an interview printed in New Enquiry, Tuten said, ‘Roy was really the reason the book got published because no one wanted to take it. And then this small publisher said, “Well, if Roy Lichtenstein will do a special edition with a lithograph we’ll publish a trade edition,” and Roy agreed. I’ll show it to you one day. An image of young Mao Zedong with a kind of cloud bursting behind him. It’s very beautiful. That was two years before Andy Warhol made his first Mao.
    In keeping with the book, Lichtenstein’s version of Mao is a highly fictionalised depiction: the artist challenges the viewer’s perception of such a famed figure by portraying the tyrant in a humorous profile.
    By transforming the real Mao figure into a fantastical cartoon illustration, Lichtenstein deflates his mythical status in a way that fits Tuten’s literary narrative but also satires the cultural commentary of Western artistic traditions.
     
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