Roy Lichtenstein, Collage for Seductive Girl, 1996. Private collection. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / VEGAP, 2007

MADRID, SPAIN.- The Juan March Foundation presents Roy Lichtenstein – Beginning to End, on view through May 20, 2007. The exhibition presents a selection of 97 works created between 1966 and 1997 by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) who, together with Andy Warhol, was one of the major exponents of American Pop Art. Organized in collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York and curated by Jack Cowart, this exhibition, for the first time, offers a complete and unedited vision of the different stages of the artist’s work process. Roy Lichtenstein: Beginning to End completes and expands upon the smaller exhibition presented in 2005 and 2006 at the Fundación Juan March’s Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca and the Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani in Palma. Titled Lichtenstein, In Process, that exhibition revealed the intermediate phase of the artist’s work process, related to his sketches, drawings and collages. This new exhibition goes further and seeks to reconstruct the distinct phases of the artist’s creation in its totality and evidence its evolution from his sources of inspiration to the final consequences – the completed works – revealing Lichtenstein’s incessant search among the different pathways of art. They are routes that at first appear mysterious but that are gradually revealed by the very process of creation and development in the artist’s work over a span of four decades. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

Roy Lichtenstein, Collage for Two Paintings: Dagwood, 1983. Private collection. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / VEGAP, 2007. Blondie y Dagwood © King Features Syndicate Inc