Landscape with Poet

Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most innovative and important artists of the second half of the last century. His work– from his comic strip works, to his benday dots, and beyond – is identifiable within seconds. After he took the artworld by storm as a young artist in the 1960s, he went on to create over 5000 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures. His work is in virtually all relevant important museums [1] and exhibitions of his work continue today across the planet.

Roy Lichtenstein’s prints solidify his place in history as a master. Several groups of prints from the 1990s illustrate the height of the artist’s printmaking. One, a pair of works inspired by Chinese landscapes, is a subject that Lichtenstein focused on as early as 1948. Two large scale prints, Landscape with Boats (C.302) and Landscape with Poet (C.303), make up this small but important pair. Lichtenstein worked on these prints at Gemini G.E.L. between January 1995 and March 1996.

This work was created in a small edition: 60 plus proofs. It is a 16-color print, made in 19 runs, from 5 aluminum plates and 14 screens. Works from this small edition are in several museum collections, including The Whitney and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Landscape with Poet has been included in several museum exhibitions, including these: Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2019, traveled to Musée des Beaux Arts, Belgium, 2020-21; Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, 1998; Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, 1998, traveled to Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan, 1998; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama Japan, 1998, among many others.