Real Estate
1969, published 1971
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in blue on Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 34.1 x 81.4 cm (13 7/16 x 32 1/16 in.) sheet: 49.7 x 99.1 cm (19 9/16 x 39 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.53
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Real Estate* (196, published 1971 is a striking lithograph in blue ink on premium Arches paper, measuring 34.1 x 81.4 cm for the image and 49.7 x 99.1 cm for the full sheet. This panoramic print exemplifies Lichtenstein's mastery of Pop Art, where he transformed everyday commercial imagery into high art. Donated to the National Gallery of Art by artist and his wife Dorothy, it resides in the museum's print collection (Department CG-W), inviting visitors to explore the intersection of consumerism and fine art. Created during the height of Pop Art in the late 1960s, *Real Es...
About the Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City to Milton Lichtenstein, a real estate broker, and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein, a homemaker with musical training, in an upper-middle-class German-Jewish family. Growing up on the Upper West Side, he displayed early artistic talent, sketching jazz musicians and visiting museums like the Museum of Modern Art. In 1939, he studied painti...