Roy Lichtenstein — Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Edition of 200
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Published by Original Editions, New York
From the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, Volume III
Corlett 39
Created at the height of Lichtenstein’s breakthrough Pop period, Sweet Dreams, Baby! is among his quintessential comic-derived images. A clenched fist explodes across the composition alongside the wonderfully dismissive “SWEET DREAMS, BABY!”—combining violence, humor and the visual shorthand of mass-market comics. Dating from 1965, the work possesses the immediacy of Lichtenstein’s most important early paintings and remains one of the defining graphic images of his classic Pop era.
