Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Modular Painting with Four Panels #5
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

Modular Painting with Four Panels #5

Artist/Maker (United States, 1923-1997)
Date1969
MediumAcrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas (four joined panels)
DimensionsOverall: 108 x 108 in. (274.3 x 274.3 cm)
Overall (Each Panel, Stretched): 54 1/8 x 54 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (137.5 x 137.5 x 4.1 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Jay I. Kislak Mortgage Corporation
Terms
    Object number92.0075
    DescriptionIn 1992, when Modular Painting in Four Panels, No. 5 was given to the Lowe Art Museum, it was the largest and most significant single donation of an art object yet made to the greater Miami community. A stunning work, it is an important addition to the Lowe’s collection of contemporary art. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City. A leader of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, he is most widely known for his paintings based on the magnification of details from commercial advertising and comic strips. Modular Painting in Four Panels, no. 5 is part of a series from the late 1960s inspired by Art Moderne design of the 1930s; here the artist has combined the progressive repetition of geometric abstraction with hard-edged line and color. According to Lichtenstein, the division of the work into four parts derives from an elementary school drawing project in which he divided his working surface into four sections and repeated the drawing in each quadrant. The Lowe’s four-panel work is a simple but powerful composition of interlocking squares and rectangular bars organized diagonally and vertically. The use of strong, primary colors plus black and white distinctly characterizes much of Lichtenstein’s work, as does his enlargement of the Benday dots that constitute the images in comic strips and other printed visual materials. These techniques enliven the flat surface of the paintings. Lichtenstein’s work has been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1993.
    On View
    Not on view
    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Sunday Funnies
    Red Grooms
    1985
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Untitled Landscape
    Roy Lichtenstein
    1965
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    #3 Paris
    Charles Joseph Biederman
    1937
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Brush Pot (Bitong)
    Artist Unknown
    late 17th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    The Annunciation
    Marcello Venusti
    16th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Foot Medication
    Roy Lichtenstein
    1963
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Waterloo Bridge
    Claude Monet
    1903
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    The Annunciation and the Journey to Bethlehem
    Guidoccio Cozzarelli
    ca. 1480-1490
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Madonna and Child
    Lorenzo di Credi
    ca. 1500
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Americanoom
    Chryssa
    1963
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Portrait of a Scholar
    Lucas Cranach the Elder
    ca. 1515
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Madonna and Child and the Infant Saint John
    Andrea del Sarto
    ca. 1529
    eMuseum
    Copyright © eMuseum