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The Melody Haunts My Reverie - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1965 - MyArtBroker

The Melody Haunts My Reverie
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£90,000-£140,000Value Indicator

$180,000-$290,000 Value Indicator

$170,000-$260,000 Value Indicator

¥870,000-¥1,360,000 Value Indicator

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¥17,870,000-¥27,800,000 Value Indicator

$120,000-$190,000 Value Indicator

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75 x 60cm, Edition of 200, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 200

Year: 1965

Size: H 75cm x W 60cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: April 2024

Value Trend:

9% AAGR

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2024
Christie's New York
United States
$90,000
$110,000
$140,000
October 2023
Phillips New York
United States
October 2022
Christie's New York
United States
April 2022
Christie's New York
United States
October 2021
Phillips New York
United States
May 2021
Bonhams New York
United States
January 2021
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s The Melody Haunts My Reverie (signed) is estimated to be worth between £90,000 and £140,000. This screenprint, created in 1965, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work has an auction history of 82 total sales since its entry to the market on 19th October 2004. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £88,455 in April 2024 to £125,534 in April 2022. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £93,040. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Reverie references Mitchell Parish's lyrics, written for the 1927 love ballad "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael. Accordingly, Lichtenstein presents a melancholy cartoon portrait of a blonde crooner, midsong. Reverie applies a simple, yet disruptive visual vocabulary, one characteristic of advertisements and comic strips. The print is scaled dramatically, informing the viewer about the precise techniques employed in its making.

It’s slick mass-produced aesthetic challenges the traditional artistic legacies of the 19th century, reintroducing discredited perspectives into contemporary artistic dialogue. There are no obscure meanings in this work to decode. Nonetheless, Lichtenstein’s Reverie is a conceptually complex work. Firstly, the print manifests social changes domineering 1960s America in the aftermath of the war. Moreover, Lichtenstein also stages the work as an affectionate tribute to music.Reverie is asking questions about the assumed status of jazz, as well the respective places of fine art and comics.