Artist's Studio "Foot Medication"

1974

Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1923–1997

By the 1970s, Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-book style of painting had become his trademark. While he had adapted his early compositions from actual comic books, here Lichtenstein rather referred to an art historical rather than a pop culture source: Henri Matisse’s Red Studio (1911; Museum of Modern Art, New York), which features Matisse’s canvases casually set around a room. Into this flattened studio space Lichtenstein similarly inserted whole or partial versions of his own real and imagined artworks across a range of subject matter, including geometric abstraction. This painting’s title calls out the 1962 print Foot Medication, reimagined as a monumental painting at upper left. This kind of self-quotation, at once playful and thoughtful, would become another feature of Lichtenstein’s production.

Status: On View, Gallery 292
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Title: Artist's Studio "Foot Medication"
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1974
Medium: Oil and Magna on canvas
Dimensions: 243.8 × 325.1 cm (96 × 128 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection
Reference Number: 2015.131

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