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Water Lily - Signed Print by Roy Lichtenstein 1993 - MyArtBroker

Water Lily
Signed Print

Roy Lichtenstein

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32 x 43cm, Edition of 130, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 130
Year: 1993
Size: H 32cm x W 43cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: June 2024
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
June 2024
Swann Galleries
United States
$16,000
$19,000
$24,000
October 2023
Phillips New York
United States
October 2023
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
May 2023
Bonhams New York
United States
October 2022
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
September 2022
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
September 2021
Wright
United States
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The value of Roy Lichtenstein’s Water Lily (signed) is estimated to be worth between £20,000 and £30,000. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of 21 total sales since its entry to the market in May 2008. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £14,863 in June 2024 to £32,496 in September 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is 10%. The edition size of this piece is limited to 130.

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Meaning & Analysis

As a forefather of the American Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein devised new ways to replicate the appearance of commercial printing. Although he developed his own unique iconography, the artist relied on art history for inspiration. Lichtenstein’s Water Lily is an autonomous edition, executed one year after the artist’s extraordinary Water Lilies. Although independent from the sequence, Water Lily also pays homage to impressionist Claude Monet’s scenic oil paintings of the early 1900s.

Similar to Les Nymphéas of the same year, the present work is a brilliant screen print that integrates machine-made patterns with painterly gestures. Water Lily captures a single enlarged water lily with white petals and dark green leaves resting on the water. The botanical elements have been flattened against the picture plane through cropping and accentuated through thick black contouring. The water’s surface is composed entirely out of vivid blue stripes and a dense streak of dots.


Lichtenstein made numerous paintings and prints based on the work of Monet, see his Cathedrals and Haystacks for instance. Water Lily also integrates Lichtenstein’s preoccupation with reflections and perception. The artist explored these optical themes continuously throughout his career, most notably in his Mirrors and Reflections series.