Roy Lichtenstein, Study for Pop! 1966, Felt-tip marker and cut-and-pasted printed paper on newsprint – 28 1/2 x 22 inches – 72.4 x 55.9 cm – Collection of Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman – © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / SIAE 2014

The Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) in Turin, Italy, presents an important exhibition devoted to the works on paper and large paintings by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), the undisputed master of Pop Art and one of the great American artists of the 20th century. Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, and for his signature style using color and hand-painted Ben-Day dots. For the first time in Italy, 235 masterpieces are being exhibited.

Along with drawings, spanning a period from the early 1940s to 1997, the exhibition also shows some sensational large-scale paintings and a photographic documentation witnessing the artist at work. Room after room, GAM’s exhibition pays tribute to his extraordinary oeuvre, celebrating the visual power and intellectual rigor of Roy Lichtenstein’s work.

“Drawing is the basis of my art. It is where my thinking takes place. It is a big part of my painting. The paintings are always the same, only larger. But they may not get at all better. I am not thinking it up while I am actually doing the painting. A certain spontaneity is lost. Drawing has more interesting traces…” Roy Lichtenstein

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Monday, December 8th 8: 10am – 6pm
Wednesday 24th and Wednesday 31st December: 10am – 2pm
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Friday, December 26th: 10am – 6pm
Thursday, January 1st, 2015: 2am – 10.30pm
Tuesday, January 6th, 2015: 10am – 6pm

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GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Via Magenta, 31 – Torino, ITALY

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