Roy Lichtenstein’s Tel Aviv Museum Print (1989) is a radiant synthesis of precision, wit, and architectural harmony — a late-career statement in which the artist’s language of abstraction reaches a serene and contemplative clarity. Created for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the work stands as both an homage to modernity and a reflection on the global reach of visual culture, rendered through the unmistakable grammar of Lichtenstein’s Pop formalism.

The composition is a lyrical interplay of geometry and rhythm. Blocks of radiant color — crisp yellows, tranquil blues, and clean whites — intersect with the structural rigor of black contour lines, evoking both the purity of De Stijl abstraction and the clarity of architectural design. Within this poised framework, Lichtenstein balances optical tension and calm, creating a visual architecture that feels simultaneously monumental and weightless. The flat, graphic surfaces invite the eye to glide across the image, tracing the logic of construction as one might study the plan of a modernist building.

Lichtenstein’s Tel Aviv Museum Print also resonates as a dialogue between cultures: a meeting of American Pop Art’s visual syntax and the Mediterranean modernism of Tel Aviv — a city known for its luminous Bauhaus-inspired architecture. Through this lens, the work reads as a celebration of artistic universality, where geometry becomes a shared language transcending geography and time.

By 1989, Lichtenstein’s art had evolved beyond irony into an elegant meditation on perception itself. In Tel Aviv Museum Print, the mechanized precision of his early Pop vocabulary becomes almost spiritual — a meditation on balance, proportion, and the human desire for order within chaos. The work’s title grounds it in a specific institution, but its essence is timeless: a visual harmony that could exist anywhere light meets form.

Created in 1989, this Lichtenstein pop art Lithograph  in colors is hand-signed by Roy Lichtenstein (New York, 1923 – New York, 1997) in pencil: ‘rf Lichtenstein’.  Numbered from the edition of 60, this work is published by Original Editions, New York.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Roy Lichtenstein, Tel Aviv Museum Print, 1989 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).

1. Corlett, Lee Mary. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein A Catalogue Raisonee 1948-1997. Hudson Hills Press: New York, 1994. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 238 on pg. 219.
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this work.

About the Framing:

Roy Lichtenstein, Tel Aviv Museum Print, 1989 is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.