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Seascape I - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1965 - MyArtBroker

Seascape I
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£6,000-£9,000Value Indicator

$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator

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¥1,190,000-¥1,790,000 Value Indicator

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43 x 56cm, Edition of 200, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 200

Year: 1965

Size: H 43cm x W 56cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: March 2025

Value Trend:

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
March 2025
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
$7,000
$8,500
$10,500
October 2024
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
February 2024
Rago
United States
June 2022
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
United States
March 2020
Christie's New York
United States
October 2019
Freeman's
United States
February 2016
Karl & Faber
Germany
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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Seascape I (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This screenprint, created in 1965, has shown consistent value growth and has an auction history of 16 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2008. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £5,818, across 2 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £5,136 in October 2024 to £7,166 in February 2024. The artwork has an average annual growth rate of 3%. The edition size of this piece is limited to 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Seascape 1 of 1965 belongs to the New York Ten suite. Highly experimental in its application of materials, the artwork presents a fictitious and humorous waterscape. Lichtenstein cuts his white and blue dotted sky in half using an indigo horizon line. Stretched out below the vivid blue stencil lies a body of water constituted entirely out of bubble wrap. The bubbles mirror the design of the patterned sky above.

Seascape 1 precedes the simplified layout of theTen Landscapesportfolio, reducing its pictorial plane to bare essentials. Lichtenstein transforms a naturalistic setting into something entirely artificial. The resulting scene shows a fully abstracted and static seascape at first glance.

Despite a sense of overriding flatness, however, the bubbly surface texture provokes sensory associations of motion. Lichtenstein applies plastic sheets of translucent Rowlux to ensure these spatial interplays, producing a playful simulation of movement. This print marks the starting point for Lichtenstein’s life-long artistic quest to invoke illusionistic effects using unexpected and experimental materials.

  • Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York, 1923, is a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, renowned for his comic book and advertisement-inspired artworks. His transformative journey from classical painter to Pop Art pioneer began with his iconic piece, Look Mickey, marking the fusion of painting with pop culture. Lichtenstein’s works, including Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Crying Girl, blend parody and satire, challenging the boundaries between popular culture and ‘high art’. With over 5,000 pieces to his name, Lichtenstein’s enduring influence resonates in contemporary art, his works celebrated in prestigious institutions worldwide.

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