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Before The Mirror - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1975 - MyArtBroker

Before The Mirror
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£9,000-£13,500Value Indicator

$19,000-$28,000 Value Indicator

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€10,500-€16,000 Value Indicator

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¥1,790,000-¥2,680,000 Value Indicator

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109 x 81cm, Edition of 100, Planographic print

Medium: Planographic print

Edition size: 100

Year: 1975

Size: H 109cm x W 81cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: June 2025

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Auction House
Location
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Buyer Paid
June 2025
Dorotheum, Vienna
Austria
$11,000
$13,000
$16,000
December 2024
Wright
United States
November 2024
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
June 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
March 2023
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
October 2020
Phillips New York
United States
November 2015
Sotheby's New York
United States
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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Before The Mirror (signed), a Planographic Print from 1975, is estimated to be worth between £9,000 and £13,500. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of 13 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2008. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £4,398 in March 2022 to £10,536 in October 2021. Over the past five years, the average annual growth rate has been 4%. This work is part of a limited edition of 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

In keeping with the traditions of object painting, Before The Mirror maintains the conventional appearance of its main motif. However, the artist dismisses the object’s intended purposes, removing its metaphorical implications, as well as its functionality. Instead, Lichtenstein focuses on the unpaintable aspect of mirrors; the play of reflections. Growing his fragmented composition with great geometric precision, the artist utilises the abstract and artificial qualities of his own visual language.

Before The Mirror is both constituted and obscured by a pop aesthetic in its depiction of a mirror with still life. Adorned by diversified streaks and parallel diagonal lines, the patterns allude to the optical attributes of luminous glass. As usual, Lichtenstein portrays his mirror frontally, compensating the absence of concrete reflections by placing a lemon and a glass in their place. Presented legibly but consistently qualified by flatness and a matte finish, the work functions as a sly misrepresentation.

Over the course of his career, Lichtenstein worked on several series of object paintings, which also conveyed material realities in the style of comics. With his Entablatures, for instance, he reproduced magnified architectural fragments. Meanwhile, his Water Lilies and Reflections series conducted further investigations into light, perception, and representation.

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