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Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Study for Artist's Studio with Model, 1974
Pencil, colored pencils and paper collage on paper
19-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)
Study for “Artist’s Studio with Model,” 1974

Study for Artist’s Studio with Model belongs to Roy Lichtenstein’s first important series of interiors—the Artist’s Studio—five pictures executed between 1973 and 1974. These were inspired by the famous interiors created by French Fauvist Henri Matisse early in the 20th century. The grand scale and complexity of his series prompted Lichtenstein to introduce the use of cut and pasted paper into his compositional studies.

In this work, the rectangular piece of paper added above the apples masks out a previously planned still life. Besides the references to early Matisse that characterize all the Artist’s Studio compositions, Study for “Artist’s Studio with Model” shows the influence of the odalisques Matisse painted in the 1920s while living in Nice. More particularly, Lichtenstein’s representation of a thin blonde woman as “odalisque” recalls Matisse’s own manner of dressing up European models as odalisques and posing them within the exotically equipped stage set of his studio.

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