Water Lilies - Blue Lily Pads. 1992.
Silkscreen in colors. Enamel on partly brushed stell, in lacquered wooden frame.
Signed, dated and numbered on the back of the frame, with the printer's stamp and registration number RL92-004. From an edition of 23 copies. 110.5 x 97.5 cm (43.5 x 38.3 in).
In the original frame. Printed by Saff Tech Arts, Oxford, Maryland (with the printer's stamp).
• Iconic art-historical motif: homage to the world-famous water lilies by Claude Monet.
• Exceptional materiality: Lichtenstein's characteristic silkscreen grid combined with a smooth, glossy enamel surface lend this work a fascinating modern texture.
• One of only six motifs from the Water Lily Series.
• With this series, Lichtenstein asserts his claim to a position among - the greatest artists in art history.
• Lichtenstein's works are part of the Pop Art canon, one of the most 20th century'smost important movements..

PROVENANCE: Knoedler and Co., New York.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1992).
Private collection Hesse (acquired in 2014).

LITERATURE: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Andrea Theil, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, no. RLCR 4172 (www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=183).
Mary Lee Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997, New York 2002, no. 262 (illustration of a different copy).
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Christie's, New York, Post-War & Contemporary Art, May 17, 2007, lot 248 (illustrated).