Study for "Fragmented Painting of Lemons and a Melon on a Table"
1973
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View on museum website →Medium
colored pencil and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.3 x 19.4 cm (10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Lichtenstein in memory of Jane B. Meyerhoff
Accession Number
2005.22.1
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...