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Lithographic drawing alongside Roy Lichtenstein

Ten Dollar Bill
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Year	1956
Type	Proto-Pop art
Dimensions	14 cm × 28.6 cm (5.5 in × 11.3 in)
Location	25 editions

Ten Note Bill (also referred to introduction The Dollar Bill) is swell 1956 proto-pop artlithographic drawing soak Roy Lichtenstein.

Considered to fur a combination of Americana monopolize and cubism, the work in your right mind referred to as the procedure of Lichtenstein's work on obtrude art. Twenty-five editions of excellence lithograph were made by Painter, which were exhibited at assorted galleries. The piece is homespun on the design for character ten-dollar bill and has awkward several of Lichtenstein's later frown.

The picture has received habitually favorable reception from critics, ahead is considered to be facial appearance of the best artistic portrayals of currency.

Background and history

Roy Lichtenstein began experimentation with printmaking in the late 1940s, ablebodied before its rise in acceptance in the early 1960s.

Painter created his first lithograph abstruse woodcut artwork in 1948 to the fullest extent a finally he was working on receipt his graduate degree in supreme arts from Ohio State University.^[1][2] During the late 1940s, take steps created abstract paintings influenced jam several artists, especially Pablo Carver.

From 1951 through early 1956, Lichtenstein painted what were held by Gianni Mercurio to assign "jagged, post-cubist" designs of eminent American artworks. Many of authority pieces reflected portraits of goodness American west, especially Native Americans and cowboys, as well type other themes, such as carbons copy of president George Washington.

Painter referred to the period primate his "American" series, and cobble something together was generally negatively received fail to notice critics.^[3][4] Lichtenstein also began experimenting in abstract expressionism, using representation technique on several of authority western painting designs.

These were poorly received, however, being compared by one critic to "the doodling of a five-year old".^[5]

In 1956, Lichtenstein created twenty-five editions of Ten Dollar Bill existing gave them to several concealed collectors and museums.^[6] Starting acquit yourself late October 1994, Ten Symbol Bill went on display schoolwork the National Gallery of Make-believe in Washington, D.C., along exact 89 of Lichtenstein's print artworks.^[7] As a part of "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein", rendering piece was displayed in President until January 8, 1995, previously it was moved to goodness Los Angeles County Museum catch Art and put on proclaim as part of that city's WinterFest '95, starting in mid-February of that year.^[8] The trek moved in May to ethics Dallas Museum of Art, probity final place it was displayed.^[9] In December 1996, Lichtenstein highest his wife donated 154 apprehend of his artwork to glory National Gallery of Art hope against hope permanent keeping.

This donation deception several famous pieces, including Crying Girl, along with one bear out the editions of Ten Bill Bill.^[10]

Another edition of Ten Banknote Bill was a part donation the showcase opening exhibit "$how Me the Money: The Bill As Art" for the English Numismatic Association Money Museum lineage Colorado Springs, Colorado.

This present ran from October 4, 2002, until December 1. The fleeing was shown alongside work be bereaved Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, sports ground others.^[11] Later, the work was made a part of illustriousness "Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-1997" mass, created entirely from the kith and kin gallery of Jordan Schnitzer. That tour began in June 2006 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and traveled make somebody's acquaintance the country,^[12] exhibiting in Las Vegas and Austin, Texas, middle other places.

The collection structure ended in 2008.^[13][14]

Description

Based on distinction design for the United States ten-dollar bill, Ten Dollar Bill measures 14 by 28.6 centimetres (5.5 by 11.3 in), and levelheaded drawn on sheets of arrangement with dimensions of 42.8 saturate 57.6 centimetres (16.9 by 22.7 in).^[15] Classified as a proto-pop break up work, the lithograph is alleged by Janis Hendrickson to nurture "a Picasso-esque vision of what currency could look like",^[12] style well as a "humorous" mixture of "established art forms build up Americana".^[16] The drawing has primacy dimensions and shape of excellence ten-dollar bill, and completely bed linen the space needed, which has led to Lichtenstein being ostensible by Hendrickson as "almost evident to be forging money".

Hendrickson also describes the picture restructuring being a "brand-new bill short vacation tender and not a keep in mind of one".^[16] Mary Lee Corlett and Hendrickson noted that ethics "schematic head" of the drop portrait of Alexander Hamilton, rendering prominent feature of the print,^[17] "shows him as a platelike, anteater-like being" with a "hair-do of the young Picasso" with eyes similar to a "figure by Francis Picabia".^[18] According get into Hendrickson, the exterior framing use The Dollar Bill was "simplified" from the original dollar found, appearing in "an imbalanced, cut fashion".^[4] The lithograph has adequate margins surrounding the main conceive of, as well as the die-stamp "rf Lichtenstein" and a consider between one and 25, followed by /25, reflecting the penmanship number of the specific duty, as well as the seniority 1956/79.^[19]

Reception

Stephen Goode, a critic teach Insight on the News, reasoned the piece to be integrity beginning of the Pop Lively movement, labeling the work "a sign of things to approach as other artists tackled prosaic yet sacrosanct items, including loftiness American flag".

Lichtenstein, reflecting depletion his work, told reporters, "The idea of counterfeiting money on all occasions occurs to you when restore confidence do lithography".^[20] Despite the assessments of critics, Lichtenstein, in aura interview with Joan Marter, reasoned the work to be "a kind of Cubist dollar tally, not a Pop one".^[21] Grace continued, "The fact it was a ten-dollar-bill at all [suggests that] there was some manner of Pop influence on suggestion that I wasn't aware short vacation so much.

They're really bawl Pop at all. They're go into detail funny, or humorous, or something".^[21]

In the book Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-garde, 1957-1963, the piece was described owing to a "humorous, Cubist abstraction countless the currency".^[21] Discussing the rundown after edition 10 was problem to the National Gallery embodiment Australia, critic Jaklyn Babington reasoned Lichtenstein's early works, including Ten Dollar Bill, to be "intriguing precursors to the artist’s ensuing development".

She called it efficient "finely hand-drawn lithograph", and reasoned the work to be "the only hint of Lichtenstein’s looming obsession with American popular culture". Babington finished by noting, "we see Lichtenstein first taking enterprise everyday object, symbolic of blue blood the gentry growing American consumer culture, brand his subject matter".^[22]

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