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Roy Lichtenstein

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes Gagosian 19 March–25 April 2026 541 West 24th Street, New York
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Press Release

Gagosian is pleased to announce Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein opening on March 19, 2026. The exhibition assembles a selection of significant paintings, a sculpture, watercolors, and other works on paper exclusively from the Collection of the Lichtenstein Family. Titled after a 1984 canvas by Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes highlights the importance of the brushstroke as a formal and symbolic device in the artist’s practice.

In the works from the 1970s and ’80s that are the exhibition’s focus, Lichtenstein returned to one of his iconic motifs with renewed creativity. The artist first approached the brushstroke as subject in 1965, translating it into heavily outlined bands of color that read as illustrations of the painterly mark. Synonymous with the bravura and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, but meticulously defined with flat shapes and clear contours, Lichtenstein’s Pop-inflected brushstrokes represent this essential element of painting in ways that further his engagement with issues of style and originality.

Works on paper from the era include original compositions as well as preliminary studies for paintings, sculptures, and other major projects, such as Mural with Blue Brushstroke (1984), a large-scale public commission first unveiled at 787 Seventh Avenue forty years ago, in which the blue brushstroke doubles as a waterfall.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with a foreword by Larry Gagosian.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
Exhibition view: Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, Gagosian, New York (19 March–25 April 2026). Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian
About the Artist

Roy Lichtenstein’s early appropriation of the aesthetics of American popular culture made him integral to the development of Pop art. A student of the work of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Paul Klee, Lichtenstein incorporated elements of contemporary art theory and popular print media into his painting. In 1961 he began to replicate the Benday dot system used in mass-circulation printed sources such as comics, newspapers, and billboards; this would become a signature element of his painting and sculpture. By mimicking this industrial method and appropriating images from high and low culture, his work realised a broader accessibility that had not yet been achieved in contemporary art. Some of his most recognisable series evolved from imagery drawn from popular culture: advertising images, war-time comics, and pin-up portraits, as well as traditional painting genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors.

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Gagosian is a global network of art galleries specialising in modern and contemporary art with eighteen exhibition spaces worldwide.
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