Water Lily Pond With Reflections
Water Lily Pond With Reflections
Signed Print
Roy Lichtenstein
£980,000-£1,470,000
$1,900,000-$2,840,000 Value Indicator
$1,670,000-$2,500,000 Value Indicator
¥8,890,000-¥13,330,000 Value Indicator
€1,150,000-€1,720,000 Value Indicator
$9,620,000-$14,430,000 Value Indicator
¥186,520,000-¥279,790,000 Value Indicator
$1,230,000-$1,840,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 23
Year: 1992
Size: H 147cm x W 214cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | ||||
| Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | ||||
| May 2023 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | |||
| December 2022 | Grisebach - Germany | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | |||
| September 2017 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | |||
| November 2016 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print | |||
| January 2015 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Water Lily Pond With Reflections - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Breaking with the artistic traditions that preceded him, Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by the mass-produced visual imagery of 1960s popular culture. He developed his own unique iconography centring on the use of Ben Day dots, thick black outlines, and saturated primary colours. This signature visual language led Lichtenstein to become one of the most recognisable artists of the 20th century.
Water Lily Pond with Reflections is an arresting piece from Lichtenstein’s 1992 Water Lilies. It is striking for the way in which it embodies the artist’s long-held fascination with light and reflections. Lichtenstein explored the challenge of representing the phenomena in graphic form in several bodies of work, including Reflections, Mirrors, and Interiors. His approach involved distilling ideas and messages into objects, symbols, and simplified forms. As such, he applied vertical black lines, Ben Day dots and white panels onto his canvases.
Lichtenstein’s interest in reflections also led him to experiment with different materials and processes suggestive of shadows and panes of light. With his Water Lilies, the artist sought to create a reflective surface as his base, using his signature ‘machine-made’ aesthetic. After experimenting with different metals, he chose stainless steel onto which he produced a swirled or dotted shiny picture plane.
