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Roy Lichtenstein Haystack III (C. 67) For Sale
Roy Lichtenstein
Haystack III (C. 67), 1969
Lithograph and screen print
20 3/4 x 30 3/4 in 52.5 x 78.1 cm
Edition
Edition of 100 plus 10 AP
About this work
Roy Lichtenstein’s Haystack III (C.67) continues his Pop reinterpretation of Claude Monet’s famed Haystacks, but with an even more dramatic emphasis on the mechanization of vision. Where Monet dissolved form into brushstrokes of shifting light and color, Lichtenstein reduces the pastoral subject to an arrangement of black and purple Ben-Day dots. The effect is striking: the familiar haystack motif emerges only faintly, almost as if seen through a screen, abstracted to the point of near-erasure.In this work, the tension between abstraction and representation becomes especially pronounced. The eye struggles to hold onto the image of the haystacks, which appear submerged beneath a rigid, industrialized grid. What Monet achieved through the play of atmospheric light across time, Lichtenstein replaces with the repetitive hum of the printing process—a commentary on how mechanical reproduction replaces personal vision in the modern era.Haystack III also sharpens the irony in Lichtenstein’s project. By borrowing a canonical Impressionist subject but filtering it through Pop Art’s visual vocabulary, he both pays homage to Monet’s innovation and critiques the way art history itself is consumed, reproduced, and flattened into images. The pastoral calm of the French countryside becomes reimagined as a patterned surface, where nature is subsumed into mass media aesthetics.The choice of a limited palette—purple, black, and white—adds to the sense of detachment. Instead of Monet’s radiant spectrum, Lichtenstein opts for stark contrasts that emphasize the artificiality of reproduction. This move underlines Pop’s central question: when art is mediated through the language of advertising and print, does the image retain its original aura, or does it transform into something entirely new?In Haystack III, the answer leans toward transformation. It is no longer about haystacks or rural life but about perception, process, and the coded structures of vision in the 20th century.For more information or to buy Haystack III (C. 67) by Roy Lichtenstein, contact our galleries using the form below.
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Auction History
Haystack #6, State III, from the Haystack series (Corlett 73; RLCR 1667) · Roy Lichtenstein · Sotheby's · 2025-10 · $31,750
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) is the defining figure of American Pop Art and one of the most actively traded artists on the post-war and contemporary market. His bold graphic language — Ben-Day dots, black outlines, primary palettes drawn from comic books and advertising — is among the most instantly recognisable in twentieth-century art. Born in New York City, he was exhibited by Leo Castelli Gallery from 1962 and worked until his death in September 1997, producing one of the most extensively documented print catalogues of any artist of his generation.
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Roy Lichtenstein art for sale spans signed prints, paintings, and unique works across his full catalogue. His most collected categories: signed and numbered screenprints and lithographs from the major series, unique works on paper, and large-format canvas paintings. The auction benchmark was set when Masterpiece (1962) sold for $165 million in a private transaction in 2017, and Nurse (1964) achieved $95.4 million at Christie's New York in 2015. Major print series regularly achieve $100,000–$2 million at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips.
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- Brushstrokes (1965–66) — Pop satire of Abstract Expressionist gesture; his most conceptually celebrated series
- Haystacks (1969) — Monet homage in Ben-Day dots and primary colour; his most decorative print subject
- Cathedral — Rouen Cathedral reworked through his commercial-art graphic vocabulary
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- Reflections (1988–94) — canvases-within-canvases; his most technically intricate prints; strongest late-career market
- Nudes (1994–97) — figurative final series synthesising his full graphic vocabulary
- Interiors (1990s) — consumer culture imagery from furniture and décor catalogues; a distinctly American subject
- Peace Through Chemistry — Science and Technology series; bold, graphic, institutionally held
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