Venetian School II

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).

1994

A second retrospective at the Guggenheim

In 1994 the Guggenheim presented a second Lichtenstein retrospective.

1995 · Distinction

Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

1996

A gift to the National Gallery: 154 prints and two books

In 1996 Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and two books to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which became the largest single repository of his work.

1997

His last weeks in hospital

Lichtenstein spent several weeks in the New York University Medical Center, where he died of pneumonia at the age of 73.

15 septembre 1997

Died