The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
The Knight (Self-Portrait)
c. 1951
(American, 1923–1997)
Framed: 86 x 74.8 x 6.4 cm (33 7/8 x 29 7/16 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 50.9 cm (24 1/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Lichtenstein worked as a commercial artist in Cleveland from 1951-57.Description
Lichtenstein’s painting is an irreverent rendering of a medieval knight adorned in chainmail and brandishing a weapon and shield. As a goofy-grinned self-portrait, it includes an element of humorous self-deprecation as well. The artist described his works from this period as “taking the kind of stodgy pictures you see in history textbooks and redoing them in a modern-art way.”- Algesa O'Sickey (until 1994); [held by Joseph O'Sickey, her husband, until 2013]; The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Litt, Steven. "Roy Lichtenstein's Ohio roots and art history in the making," Plain Dealer, April 10, 2020. Reproduced, P. D1; mentioned, P. D2.Finch, Elizabeth. "Roy Lichtenstein in the Modern Midwest." In Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960. Elizabeth Finch, Marshall N. Price, Scott Manning Stevens, Ruth Fine, and Graham Bader, 61-104. New York: Rizzoli Electa; Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art; Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2020. Reproduced: P. 95
- Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1969. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (February 11-June 6, 2021) http://www.colby.edu/museum/exhibition/roy-lichtenstein-history-in-the-making-1948-1960/; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (August 1-October 24, 2021) https://parrishart.org/exhibitions/roy-lichtenstein-history-in-the-making-1948-1960/; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (March 4-June 5, 2022); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (organizer) (August 25, 2022-January 8, 2023) https://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/roy-lichtenstein-history-in-the-making-1948-1960/.
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