Roy Lichtenstein — Shipboard Girl
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil
After Lichtenstein’s celebrated 1965 painting of the same subject
Shipboard Girl presents one of the archetypal women of Lichtenstein’s classic Pop vocabulary: glamorous, emotionally charged and rendered with the mechanical precision of commercial printing. With her windswept hair, bold contours and Ben-Day dots, the figure appears lifted directly from the world of romance comics that fascinated Lichtenstein during the 1960s. The image has become one of the artist’s enduring female subjects and an immediately recognizable expression of American Pop Art.
