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Chem IA - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1970 - MyArtBroker

Chem IA
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

£7,500-£11,500Value Indicator

$15,000-$24,000 Value Indicator

$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator

¥70,000-¥110,000 Value Indicator

€8,500-€13,500 Value Indicator

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¥1,490,000-¥2,280,000 Value Indicator

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76 x 51cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 100

Year: 1970

Size: H 76cm x W 51cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: September 2024

Value Trend:

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Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
N/A
N/A
N/A
October 2020
Phillips New York
United States
May 2011
Bonhams San Francisco
United States
May 2008
Bonhams San Francisco
United States
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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Chem IA (signed) from 1970 is estimated to be worth between £7,500 and £11,500. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market in May 2008. In the past 12 months, the average selling price was £8,000, across a total of 1 sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £8,000 in September 2024 to £11,459 in October 2020. The average return to the seller during this period was £8,270. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

The screen print counteracts notions of classical art, exhibiting masterfully orchestrated compositions fuelled by an inclination for social commentary. Repurposing the inescapable imagery of commercial culture, the work’s formal sources can be traced back to the sleek industrial design of the 1930s.

Chem IA uses solid white support and inflated comic book shapes in its schematised depiction of a scientist studying the contents of a test tube. As the factory wheels turn in the lower-left corner of the canvas, so do the thoughts inside his head. Tone and texture are achieved through the superimposed Ben Day dots in the work’s backdrop. The stylised layout also functions as a cubist revision of the propaganda disseminated throughout the United States over the course of the 1970s.

The artist uses elementary symbols, rendering every shape an inanimate object. The angularity of the industrial elements depicted are offset by the curvilinear lines alluding to human touch. The imagery ultimately pins humanity against machinery, reflecting on industrialisation’s claim that peace is achievable through science. Saturated in irony, Chem IA is straightforward in its criticism of contemporary social and political change.