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Roy Lichtenstein Two Paintings : Dagwood (C. 207) For Sale
Roy Lichtenstein
Two Paintings : Dagwood (C. 207), 1984
Wood cut and lithograph on Arches 88 paper
53 7/8 x 39 in 136.8 x 98.9 cm
Edition
Edition of 60
About this work
Roy Lichtenstein’s Two Paintings: Dagwood (1984) is a bold synthesis of high and low art that reflects the artist’s sustained interrogation of popular imagery and art historical traditions. Created through a complex process involving woodcut, lithograph, silkscreen, and collage, the work belongs to Lichtenstein’s celebrated Two Paintings series, in which he juxtaposes contrasting visual languages to question the boundaries between art, mass culture, and reproduction.Here, the composition is divided into three vertical bands, each containing a distinct visual idiom. On the left, gestural brushstrokes rendered in mechanical precision parody the Abstract Expressionist gesture, a recurring target of Lichtenstein’s Pop critique. The central panel, dominated by bold yellows and ornamental forms, recalls the decorative excesses of Rococo or Baroque design, flattened into his unmistakable Pop vocabulary of heavy black outlines and saturated colors. On the right, a fragment of the comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead appears in Lichtenstein’s iconic Ben-Day dots, referencing the mass-media cartoons that first catapulted him to fame in the 1960s.The inclusion of Dagwood—an emblem of middle-class domestic comedy from the long-running Blondie comic strip—injects humor and irony, contrasting sharply with the grandeur of art historical styles and the seriousness of gestural abstraction. Lichtenstein sets up a collision between the banal and the exalted, suggesting that in a culture of mass reproduction, distinctions between “high” and “low” art collapse into a shared visual field.Technically, Two Paintings: Dagwood exemplifies Lichtenstein’s ambitious printmaking in the 1980s. His use of collage allows for layered textures and visual disruptions, while the mixture of woodcut, lithography, and silkscreen demonstrates his mastery in combining different print traditions. The result is a work that is both playful and rigorous, embodying the conceptual spirit of Pop Art while engaging critically with the legacies of modernism.Through this fusion, Lichtenstein raises questions about originality, appropriation, and the hierarchy of artistic traditions. By placing a comic character beside painterly brushstrokes and decorative motifs, he highlights the absurdity of strict cultural divisions and reaffirms his position as both a satirist and celebrant of image-making in the 20th century.For more information or to buy Two Paintings (1984) by Roy Lichtenstein, contact our galleries using the form below.
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Auction History
Two Paintings: Dagwood, from the Paintings series · Roy Lichtenstein · Sotheby's · 2025-09 · $107,950
Two Paintings: Dagwood · Roy Lichtenstein · John Moran · 2022-03 · $75,000
Two Paintings: Dagwood, from Paintings (G. 1146, C. 207) · Roy Lichtenstein · Phillips · 2022-10 · $69,300
Two Paintings: Dagwood (from the Paintings series) · Roy Lichtenstein · Rago · 2022-06 · $68,750
Two Paintings: Dagwood, from the Painting series · Roy Lichtenstein · Heritage Auctions · 2023-10 · $65,625
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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
- American Indian Theme (1980) — a major suite exploring Indigenous American motifs
- 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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