£4,650-£7,000 VALUE (EST.)
$9,000-$13,500 VALUE (EST.)
$7,500-$11,500 VALUE (EST.)
¥40,000-¥60,000 VALUE (EST.)
€5,500-€8,000 VALUE (EST.)
$45,000-$70,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥840,000-¥1,270,000 VALUE (EST.)
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Screenprint, 1990
Signed Print Edition of 250
H 25cm x W 18cm
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Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
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May 2023 | SBI Art Auction - Japan | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
June 2022 | Rachel Davis Fine Arts - United States | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
November 2021 | Brunk Auctions - United States | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
June 2021 | Wright - United States | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
February 2021 | A.N. Abell Auction Company - United States | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
October 2019 | Freeman's - United States | Mirror - Signed Print | |||
March 2019 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Mirror - Signed Print |
Roy Lichtenstein launched his abstracted Mirror series in the late 1960s, concluding the sequence in the early 1990s. His Mirrors examine the symbolic implications of mirrors in art and mythology. Historically, mirrors have been used to reveal the hidden and the unconscious. Lichtenstein’s Mirrors honour the traditions of object painting by keeping the physical appearance of the motif intact. However, the artist removes the object’s most necessary function, as well as its symbolic purpose.
Situated on a stark white background, Mirror of 1990 is the most figurative depiction of the sequence. The print presents slanted black lines, enveloped in a thick yellow rectangular frame. These monochrome streaks within the rectangle allude to the reflective attributes of glass. In line with the other Mirror prints, the subject matter here is presented frontally, displaying the complete absence of reflections. Even if the object is depicted legibly, Mirror is a misrepresentation, disguised as an exemplification of a mirror.
Over the course of his career, Lichtenstein embarked on several other series dealing with vision and representation. His Water Liliesand Reflections, for instance, explore various perceptions of light and reflection. Meanwhile, Lichtenstein’s Entablatures delve further into object painting, reproducing enlarged architectural fragments as their main composition.