Lichtenstein’s Artist’s Studios, inspired in part by Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio (1911), present fictional interiors where images and motifs from across his practice are lifted from their original contexts, rearranged, and placed into new relationships. A playful take on the longstanding art-historical trope of the studio interior, these large paintings are filled with duplications of iconic works, reworked imagery from lesser-known works or studies, and paraphrases of patterns and details. In these imagined settings, artworks become pictures on walls, decorative surfaces, and objects among objects.
The Artist’s Studios also served as a testing ground for Lichtenstein to try out ideas before fully committing to them. The result is a world of art within art, where the studio becomes less a private workspace than a space for reimagining pictures already in circulation. This gallery functions as a visual archive, bringing several of Lichtenstein’s Artist’s Studios into dialogue with the paintings, drawings, and other imagery referenced or reimagined in them.
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