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Interior with Chair (Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio), 1997
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Details
Medium: hand-signed serigraph on paper
Year: 1997
Edition: 191
Sheet size: 37 x 27"
Image size: 27.25 x 20.62"
Framed size: 46 x 36"
Signature: signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '97' and annotated lower right
Year: 1997
Edition: 191
Sheet size: 37 x 27"
Image size: 27.25 x 20.62"
Framed size: 46 x 36"
Signature: signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '97' and annotated lower right
About the Work
"Interior with Chair" is a serigraph on paper created by Roy Lichtenstein for the 1997 "Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio." From the edition of 191, the artwork is signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '97' and annotated lower right. The artwork is framed in a custom closed-corner gold leaf frame and has a framed size of 46 x 36". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Roy Lichtenstein’s "Interior with Chair" is a sharp reminder that the rooms we build around ourselves are never neutral. Created for "Leo Castelli’s 90th Birthday Portfolio" in 1997, the print belongs to the final chapter of Lichtenstein’s career, when his long-running fascination with popular imagery turned toward the domestic interior: chairs, walls, lamps, plants, windows, and the visual codes of tasteful living. At first glance, the image feels clean, bright, and immediately readable. But, as with much of Lichtenstein’s best work, its apparent simplicity is also its strategy.
The print relates to Lichtenstein’s 1990s "Interiors" series, in which he drew from advertisements and commercial imagery, including sources like the Yellow Pages. These were not “real” rooms so much as idealized versions of rooms: staged, flattened, and designed to sell a lifestyle. Lichtenstein enlarged and transformed these images through his unmistakable Pop vocabulary: crisp outlines, emphatic color, graphic pattern, and Ben-Day dots. The result is an interior that looks familiar but slightly unreal, more like an image of desire than a place anyone has actually lived.
That unreality is especially visible in "Interior with Chair." The work gives us recognizable elements — a chair, a dresser, a plant, a window, a patterned wall — but their relationships do not quite make sense. The chair appears immediately legible as a chair, yet its seat, back, and legs do not resolve into a stable piece of furniture. The dresser seems flat and dimensional at the same time. The plant and vase appear almost pasted into the room, while the window hovers over the dotted background rather than opening convincingly onto a real view. Lichtenstein plays with the grammar of interior space, but he refuses to let it become fully believable.
This subtle wrongness is part of what makes the image feel so current. Today we live in an age of curated interiors: Instagram apartments, design blogs, real estate staging, Pinterest boards, luxury hotel lobbies, and algorithmically perfect rooms that circulate as images before they are ever experienced as spaces. Lichtenstein understood, well before the social media era, that interiors could function as portraits of aspiration. A chair is not just a chair; it is taste, status, comfort, branding, and self-presentation compressed into a visual symbol.
What makes "Interior with Chair" compelling for today’s collectors is this tension between decoration and critique. Lichtenstein gives us an image that is elegant, accessible, and visually satisfying, but he also asks us to think about how style is manufactured. His use of Ben-Day dots, associated with commercial printing rather than traditional painting, keeps the work connected to mass media and reproduction. In doing so, he collapses the distance between advertising, design, and fine art.
The print’s place in the "Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio" adds another layer of significance. Castelli was one of the great architects of postwar American art, and the portfolio brought together a remarkable group of artists who helped define the gallery system, the market, and the visual language of the late twentieth century. Within that context, "Interior with Chair" is more than a refined Pop image. It is a tribute to the world Castelli helped build: a world where commercial culture, high art, taste, and collecting became inseparable.
Today, Lichtenstein’s interiors still feel fresh because they speak to how we live with images. It captures the moment when a private room becomes a public statement, and when design becomes a form of identity. In that sense, "Interior with Chair" is not only about the look of an interior. It is about the way contemporary life turns everything, even home, into an image.
About the Artist
Interior with Chair (Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio), 1997
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$118,500.00
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