His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, his mother, Beatrice (Werner), a homemaker. Lichtenstein was born into an upper middle class German- Jewish family in New York City. 2.2 Period of Lichtenstein's highest profile.His most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in January 2017. Drowning Girl, Whaam!, and Look Mickey are regarded as his most influential works. Whaam! and Drowning Girl are generally regarded as Lichtenstein's most famous works. His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. He described pop art as 'not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting'. His artwork was considered to be 'disruptive'. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody.
During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Roy Fox Lichtenstein ( / ˈ l ɪ k t ən ˌ s t aɪ n/ October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. Isabel Wilson (1949–1965 divorced 2 children inc.
