Best Buddies
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1996.56.124
Pendant ce temps, chez Roy Lichtenstein
La vie entière1977–1993
Skowhegan Medal, Brandeis award, “Friends of Barcelona”
Lichtenstein received the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (1977), the Creative Arts Award in Painting from Brandeis University (1991) and the “Amici de Barcelona” award from Mayor Pasqual Maragall (1993).
1977–1996
Honorary doctorates
Lichtenstein received several honorary doctorates, among them from the California Institute of the Arts (1977), Southampton College (1980), Ohio State University (1987), the Royal College of Art (1993) and George Washington University (1996).
1989
“Torpedo… Los!” sells for $5.5 million
The painting “Torpedo… Los!” (1963) sold at Christie’s for $5.5 million, a record sum at the time, making Lichtenstein one of only three living artists to attract such sums.
![Untitled [pyramid], Roy Lichtenstein, c. 1970](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/61776/2019_234_14_cropped.jpg)
![Untitled [pyramid], Roy Lichtenstein, c. 1970](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/61778/2019_234_16_cropped.jpg)
![Untitled [pyramid], Roy Lichtenstein, c. 1970](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/61777/2019_234_15_cropped.jpg)
![Untitled [pyramid], Roy Lichtenstein, c. 1970](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/61763/2019_234_1_cropped.jpg)
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f29e3c9-a289-4d53-abf0-31a66e9e98fa/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
