Roy Lichtenstein
Cold Shoulder1963

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Roy Lichtenstein
United States, New York, New York City, 1923-1997
Title: Cold Shoulder
Date Made: 1963
Medium: Oil and magna on canvas
Dimensions: 68 1/2 x 48 in. (173.99 x 121.92 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert H. Halff through the Modern and Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number: M.2005.38.5
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop lexicon is characterized by his tongue-in-cheek parodies of popular advertising and comics, as in Cold Shoulder, which was inspired by the DC Comics anthology Girls’ Romances (1950–71). Lichtenstein’s precisely rendered compositions disguise the painstakingly handmade nature of his work. Mimicking the Benday-dot mechanical printing process, the artist hand-painted the matrix of dots that here constitute the woman’s skin.

Wall label, 2021.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie. Acknowledgments, or Every Label Tells a Story. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues: LACMA, 2017.