ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

"What I see when I stand in front of any interior of Roy's is a work of an important artist that I immediately recognize: a Calder, a blue sponge sculpture by Yves Klein, a Lichtenstein, a Johns from the late eighties. But if you eliminate these works from the interiors they become unreal. They are too perfect. The environment is too clean to be habitable" (L. Castelli quoted in Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors, ex. cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1999, p. 23).