A pioneer of Pop Art in the United States, the graphic qualities of Roy Lichtenstein’s art and the bold, primary colors he used helped define an aesthetic for the burgeoning movement in the 1960s. Famed for his comic-book motifs and his use of Ben-Day dots, Lichtenstein’s works are recognized for their mechanical appearance. In direct contrast to the Abstract Expressionists that proceeded the movement, Pop Art often celebrated a mass-produced and industrial aesthetic, devoid of brushstrokes and other explicit indications of the artist’s hand.

 

---

Introduction

---

At Pop Art’s inception, it was this difference that was attacked by critics, who initially viewed the works of Lichtenstein and his contemporaries as empty, vulgar, and highly controversial for their diversions from what was considered to be high art. Regardless of such statements, Pop Art continued to flourish, with Lichtenstein becoming one of the most revered American artists of the twentieth century. However, Lichtenstein satirically responded to early criticisms throughout his career. Firstly, in his Brushstrokes series of 1965-66, where he elevated the gestural brushstrokes of the Abstract Expressionists to the main subject matter of his paintings and parodied them in a heavily mechanized style. Secondly, he frequently revisited paintings from the art historical canon in order to breakdown the distinction between high and low art and to demonstrate the possibilities that the Pop Art aesthetic afforded to him. These two approaches converge to great effect in Lichtenstein’s Landscape Series of 1984-85, which includes View from the Window (1985).

Pierre Bonnard, Open Window in Uriage, 1918.
Image: Luisa Ricciarini / Bridgeman Images

In View from the Window, Lichtenstein takes a favored subject matter of the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists and transforms it using his unique visual vocabulary. Compositionally recalling works such as Henri Matisse’s Open Window, Collioure (1905) or Pierre Bonnard’s Open Window in Uriage (1918), Lichtenstein cleverly evokes the brushstrokes of his predecessors through the processes of screenprinting and lithography. This incredibly complex procedure involved the artist first painting the brushstrokes on vellum, using a mixture of powdered pigment and manga. The brushstrokes he created were then transferred on to photo-sensitized plates or screens to retain the fluidity and texture of the original stroke. Through this method, Lichtenstein was able to emulate the presence of the artist’s hand, contrasting this with the graphic woodcut lines which also feature in the image. In doing so, Lichtenstein demonstrates Pop Art’s ability to produce works of equal quality and skill to the venerated French modernists, all the while maintaining some of the graphic qualities that gave Pop Art such a contemporary edge. Attesting to Lichtenstein’s success in championing a Pop Art aesthetic and eradicating the gaps between perceived high and low art, a proof of View from the Window aside of the edition of sixty resides in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection in New York.

View from the Window is one of six prints that make up Lichtenstein’s Landscape Series. Other images from the series include The Sower – a work directly inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s painting of the same title – and The River, which recalls Impressionist depictions of the Seine, such as Edouard Manet’s The Seine at Argenteuil (1874) or Gustave Caillebotte’s Factories at Argenteuil (1888). Outside of this series, Lichtenstein created his own iterations of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral and Haystacks in 1968 and 1969 respectively, demonstrating a sustained interest in applying the Pop Art aesthetic to seminal works in the art historical canon. Created at a time when Pop Art was already an accepted and highly celebrated movement, View from the Window highlights Lichtenstein’s unwavering promotion of his visual language and the skill required to produce such works.

We might want to visit some wonderful landscape paintings by Roy Lichtenstein sold at auction a while back to understand better how the artist approached the ancestral art of landscape painting. Exploding in an exquisite panoply of bold primary colors, Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscape with Red Sky from 1985 is a magnificently complex milestone in the painter’s enduringly evolving exploration of art-making, perfectly summarizing Lichtenstein’s ultimate project of painting pictures about pictures. The immense expanse of the canvas erupts into a panorama of Lichtenstein’s most iconic thick bold lines, borrowed from the comic strip lexicon, and deceptively expressionistic brush strokes—a brilliant chaos that upon close examination reveals itself as meticulously controlled spontaneity. Executed at the apex of Lichtenstein’s trailblazing and perennially inventive career, Landscape with Red Sky reflects Pop Art at its most sophisticated and self-aware. Formally, the painting denotes a fearless departure from the tightly confined representational compositions that characterized Lichtenstein’s earlier oeuvre. Predominantly red, horizontal swooshes rip across the top quarter of the canvas, sketching a smoldering sunset sky. Below a kinetic horizon line hemming the sky, a topography of abstracted houses, clouds, trees, hills and water resplendently swoop across the surface as though swept in a cataclysmic gust of wind, arousing a dynamic motion that pulls us into its sublime assemblage.

Landscape with Red Sky, 1985

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Landscape with Red Sky, 1985
Oil and magna on canvas
108×77 inches (274.3 x 195.5 cm)

In 1984–85 Lichtenstein produced a group of Landscape paintings, the imagery of which was composed of a combination of “cartoon” and “real” brushstrokes. In 1985 he explored the theme in his series of seven prints, produced at Gemini G.E.L. Some of the images in the series refer to masterpieces by other artists, Van Gogh, for example, in RLCR 3460, The Sower, while others are invented.

Lichtenstein produced both the lithographic and the screenprinted brushstrokes by first painting the stroke on vellum, using a mixture of powdered pigment and his preferred painting medium, magna. The brushstrokes were then transferred to the photo-sensitized plates or screens, in this way retaining all the fluidity of the original stroke. The softness of these strokes is balanced by the hard-edged woodcut ones.

The great number of colors in each print, as well as the large size of the paper, made the proofing process especially complex. The use of an electric silkscreen press facilitated precise inking and registration on this scale.

---

Landscapes Series, 1985

---

1. Seascape (Corlett 210)

2. The Sower (Corlett 211)

3. Moonscape (Corlett 212)

4. Road Before The Forest (Corlett 213)

5. The River (Corlett 214)

6. View from the Window (Corlett 215)

7. Sunshine Through the Clouds (Corlett 216)

 

---

Auction Market Overview

---

Auction Summary

 

2025 Auction Results Highlights

12 lots sold at auction for a total turnover of USD 1,258,650, at an average price of USD 104,890. With 1 lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 92.3%. The highest price was achieved by View from the Window, from The Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein, that sold at Sotheby’s in New-York on 22 October 2025 for USD 165,100. This print is also the most sold in 2025, as it sold 3 times so far in 2025, also at Christie’s in New-York, on 23 October 2025 for USD 101,600, and at Phillips, in New-York, on 26 April 2025 for USD 101,600 as well.

View from the Window, 1985

Pop Impressions: Prints from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 22 October 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 165,100

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window (Corlett 215; RLCR 3461), 1985
From the Landscapes series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed AP 3/11
This impression is one of 11 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

Furthermore, 2 new auction records have been set in 2025 so far:

• Sunshine Through The Clouds sold at Christie’s in New-York, on 23 October 2025 for USD 120,650
• The River sold at Christie’s in New-York, on 16 April 2025 for USD 113,400

Sunshine through the Clouds, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 120,650
AUCTION RECORD FOR SUNSHINE THROUGH THE CLOUDS

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Sunshine through the Clouds (Corlett 216), 1985
From Landscape Series 
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 6⁄60
(there were also eleven artist’s proofs)

The River, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 113,400
NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR THE RIVER

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes Series (Corlett 214), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2⁄60

2024 Auction Results Highlights

4 lots sold at auction in 2024 for a total turnover of USD 394,100, at an average price of USD 98,525. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The highest price has been achieved by Road Before The Forrest, that sold at Phillips in New-York on 16 April 2024 for USD 114,300.

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2024
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 114,300

2023 Auction Results Highlights

5 lots sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 582,575, at an average price of USD 116,515. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The highest price has been achieved by Seascape, that sold at Phillips in New-York on 26 October 2023 for USD 165,100, its new auction record. Furthermore, Moonscape sold at Bonhams in New-York on 9 May 2023, for USD 164,175, setting a new auction record for this print.

Seascape, 1985

Phillips New-York: 26 October 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 165,100
AUCTION RECORD FOR SEASCAPE

2022 Auction Results Highlights

3 lots sold at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of USD 271,050, at an average price of USD 90,350. The highest price has been achieved by Sunshine Through The Clouds, that sold at Bonhams in Los Angeles, on 29 March 2022 for USD 102,810.

Sunshine Through The Clouds, 1985

Bonhams LA: 29 March 2022
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 102,812

 

 

 

---

2026 Auction Results

---

The Sower, 1985

Pop Impressions: Prints from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 15 April 2026
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 76,800

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
The Sower, from the Landscapes series (Corlett 211; RLCR 3460), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated ’85 and inscribed AP 2/11
This impression is one of 11 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60
With the blindstamp of the printer and publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

Seascape, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 15 April 2026
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 101,600

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Seascape, from Landscapes Series, 1985
(Corlett 210; Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonné 3455; Gemini 1252)
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 28⁄60
(there were also eleven artist’s proofs)
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
With their blindstamps and ink stamp on the reverse

Seascape, 1985

Christie’s London: 26 March 2026
Estimated: GBP 40,000 – 60,000
GBP 101,600 / USD 135,740

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Seascape, from: Landscapes Series, 1985
(Corlett 210; Gemini 1252)
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, inscribed RTP
A ‘Ready to Print’ proof, aside from the edition of sixty (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps and ink stamp on the reverse

 

 

 

---

2025 Auction Results

---

12 lots sold at auction for a total turnover of USD 1,258,650, at an average price of USD 104,890. With 1 lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 92.3%. The highest price was achieved by View from the Window, from The Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein, that sold at Sotheby’s in New-York on 22 October 2025 for USD 165,100. This print is also the most sold in 2025, as it sold 3 times so far in 2025, also at Christie’s in New-York, on 23 October 2025 for USD 101,600, and at Phillips, in New-York, on 26 April 2025 for USD 101,600 as well.

XXXXXXXXXX

#1. View from the Window, 1985

Pop Impressions: Prints from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 22 October 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 165,100

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window (Corlett 215; RLCR 3461), 1985
From the Landscapes series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed AP 3/11
This impression is one of 11 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

#2. Sunshine through the Clouds, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 120,650
AUCTION RECORD FOR SUNSHINE THROUGH THE CLOUDS

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Sunshine through the Clouds (Corlett 216), 1985
From Landscape Series 
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 6⁄60

#3. Road Before The Forest, 1985

Artnet Auctions: 29 May 2025
Estimated: USD 80,000 – 120,000
USD 118,750

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923–1997)
Road Before the Forest (from Landscapes) (Corlett 213), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed, dated and numbered 38/60 in pencil

#4. Moonscape, 1985

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 26 September 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 114,300

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Moonscape, from the Landscapes series (Corlett 212), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed, dated ’85 and inscribed AP 4/11 (lower right)
One of 11 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60

#5. The River, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 113,400
NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR THE RIVER

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes Series (Corlett 214), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2⁄60

#6. View from the Window, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 101,600

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window (Corlett 215), 1985
From Landscape Series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 6⁄60

#7. View from the Window, 1985

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 101,600

#8. Road Before The Forest, 1985

Abell: 12 December 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 80,000 (Hammer)
USD 100,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923-1997)
Road Before the Forest (Corlett 213, Gemini 1225), 1985
from the Landscape Series
Woodcut, lithograph, and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Hand-signed, dated, and numbered 52/60 lower right
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles and with their blindstamp

---

USD 100,000

---

#9. Road Before the Forest, 1985

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Road Before the Forest (Corlett 213; RLCR 3452), 1985
From the Landscapes series 
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed S.P. IV
This impression is one of five special proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60 plus 11 artist’s proofs
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

#10. Seascape, 1985

#12. Seascape, 1985

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 69,850

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Seascape (Corlett 210), 1985
From Landscapes Series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 28⁄60

 

---

2024 Auction Results

---

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2024
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 114,300

---

USD 100,000

---

5 lots sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 582,575, at an average price of USD 116,515. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The highest price has been achieved by Seascape, that sold at Phillips in New-York on 26 October 2023 for USD 165,100, its new auction record. Furthermore, Moonscape sold at Bonhams in New-York on 9 May 2023, for USD 164,175, setting a new auction record for this print.

#1. Seascape, 1985

Phillips New-York: 26 October 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 165,100
AUCTION RECORD FOR SEASCAPE

#3. Sunshine Through The Clouds, 1985

Phillips New-York: 20 April 2023
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 92,250

#4. Road Before The Forrest, 1985

Doyle New-York: 1 November 2023
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 90,000
USD 88,200

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Road Before The Forest, from Landscape Series, 1985
Color lithograph, woodcut and screenprint on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 23/60 in pencil

#5. Seascape, 1985

Sotheby’s New-York: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 69,850

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Seascape, from Landscapes Series (C. 210), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 17/60

 

---

2022 Auction Results

---

3 lots sold at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of USD 271,050, at an average price of USD 90,350. The highest price has been achieved by Sunshine Through The Clouds, that sold at Bonhams in Los Angeles, on 29 March 2022 for USD 102,810.

#1. Sunshine Through The Clouds, 1985

Bonhams LA: 29 March 2022
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 102,812

#2. View From The Window, 1985

Phillips London: 15 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 60,000 – 80,000
GBP 75,600 / USD 87,419

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
View from the Window, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 47/60 in pencil (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

#3. View From The Window, 1985

Waddington’s Toronto: 10 November 2022
Estimated: CAD 90,000 – 120,000
CAD 108,000 / USD 79,835

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997), American
VIEW FROM THE WINDOW (FROM “LANDSCAPES SERIES”), 1985
[CORLETT, 215; GEMINI G.E.L, 1257]
Monumental lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colours, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated “85” and numbered 53/60, (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

 

 

---

Seascape

---

Phillips New-York: 26 October 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 165,100
AUCTION RECORD FOR SEASCAPE

Sotheby’s New-York: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 69,850

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Seascape, from Landscapes Series (C. 210), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 17/60

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 24 October 2017
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 93,750

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Seascape, from Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55/60

XXXXXXXXXX

Seascape (32/60)
Bonhams London: 22 June 2016
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 43,750 / USD 64,215

Seascape (1/60)
Heritage Auctions: 8 November 2014
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 65,625

Seascape (51/60)
Sotheby’s New-York: 31 October 2014
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 81,250

Seascape (26/60)
Phillips New-York: 28 October 2014
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 52,500

 

 

---

The Sower

---

The Sower
from Landscape Series

Medium: Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1985
Image: 38 1/4 x 52 3/8 inches (97.2 x 133 cm)
Sheet: 41 x 55 1/2 inches (104.1 x 141 cm)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 11
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 211, Gemini 1253, RLCR 3460

The Sower, 1985 (RLCR 3460) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp and inkstamp of the publisher on the reverse

Auction Results

---

Christie’s New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 75,600

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The Sower, from Landscapes Series (Corlett 211), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2⁄60

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s online: 13 December 2018
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 43,750

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The Sower, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 10/60

Sotheby’s New-York: 16 April 2018
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 62,500

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
The Sower (Corlett 211), 1985
Lithograph, screen print and wood cut in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 39/60 lower right
With the blindstamp of the printer and publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
And with their inkstamp on the verso

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-Yok: 25 October 2017
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 60,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The Sower, from Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55/60

XXXXXXXXXX

The Sower (48/60)
LA Modern: 9 October 2016
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 40,000
USD 40,625

The Sower (54/60)
Freeman’s Hindman: 24 May 2016
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 42,500

The Sower (14/60)
Christie’s New-York: 27 April 2016
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 40,000

The Sower (AP 7/11)
Heritage Auctions: 8 November 2014
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 46,875

The Sower (19/60)
Christie’s New-York: 26 October 2011
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 30,000

 

 

 

---

Moonscape

---

Auction Results

---

Bonhams New-York: 9 May 2023
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 125,000
USD 164,175
AUCTION RECORD FOR MOONSCAPE

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Moonscape, from Landscapes (Corlett 212), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 18/60 (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 17 April 2019
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 100,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Moonscape, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, annotated ‘PP II’ (a printer’s proof, the edition was 60)

XXXXXXXXXX

Moonscape (36/60)
Phillips New-York: 18 April 2017
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 68,750

Moonscape (34/60)
Christie’s New-York: 28 October 2015
Estimated: USD 35,000 – 45,000
USD 62,500

Moonscape (3/60)
Sotheby’s New-York: 2 May 2015
Estimated: USD 35,000 – 45,000
USD 60,000

Moonscape (AP 7/11)
Heritage Auctions: 8 November 2014
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 46,875

Moonscape (3/60)
LA Modern: 13 October 2013
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 46,875

---

Road Before The Forest

---

Road Before The Forest
from Landscape Series

Medium: Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1985
Image: 37 x 52 3/8 inches (94×133 cm)
Sheet: 40 x 55 1/2  inches (101.6 x 141 cm)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 11
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 213, Gemini 1255, RLCR 3452

Road Before the Forest, 1985 (RLCR 3452) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp and inkstamp of the publisher on the reverse

Auction Results

---

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Road Before the Forest (Corlett 213; RLCR 3452), 1985
From the Landscapes series 
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed S.P. IV
This impression is one of five special proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60 plus 11 artist’s proofs
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

Artnet Auctions: 29 May 2025
Estimated: USD 80,000 – 120,000
USD 118,750

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923–1997)
Road Before the Forest (from Landscapes) (Corlett 213), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed, dated and numbered 38/60 in pencil

XXXXXXXXXX

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2024
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 114,300

Doyle New-York: 1 November 2023
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 90,000
USD 88,200

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Road Before The Forest, from Landscape Series, 1985
Color lithograph, woodcut and screenprint on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 23/60 in pencil

XXXXXXXXXX

Phillips New-York: 21 October 2021
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 119,700

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Road Before the Forest, from Landscapes Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 40/60 in pencil (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 16 November 2018
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 60,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Road before the Forest, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 10/60

Christie’s New-York: 9 May 2018
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 175,000
AUCTION RECORD FOR ROAD BEFORE THE FOREST

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Road Before the Forest, from Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Numbered ’47/60′ and signed and dated ‘R. Lichtentein ’85’ in pencil lower right
This work is from the edition of 60 (there were also eleven artist’s proofs)

---

The River

---

 

The River
from Landscape Series

Medium: Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1985
Image: 27 1/4 x 52 7/8 inches (69.2 x 134.3 cm)
Sheet: 40 1/8 x 55 1/2 inches (101.9 x 141 cm)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 11
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 214, Gemini 1256, RLCR 3459

The River, 1985 (RLCR 3459) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp and inkstamp of the publisher on the reverse

Auction Results

---

Christie’s New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 113,400
AUCTION RECORD FOR THE RIVER

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes Series (Corlett 214), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2⁄60

XXXXXXXXXX

Grogan & Company: 15 November 2020
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 75,000
USD 75,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes (C. 214), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Numbered 14/60
Signed Roy Lichtenstein, and dated ’85 in pencil, lower right

XXXXXXXXXX

Phillips New-York: 25 October 2019
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 81,250

Christie’s New-York: 24 October 2018
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 75,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 51/60

Phillips New-York: 16 October 2018
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 81,250

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
The River, from The Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 41/60 in pencil
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps)

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 24 October 2017
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 93,750

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
The River, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55/60 (there were also eleven artist’s proofs)

XXXXXXXXXX

The River (9/60)
Heritage Auctions: 8 November 2014
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 60,000

The River (48/60)
Heritage Auctions: 8 November 2014
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 62,500

The River (26/60)
Phillips New-York: 29 April 2013
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 75,000

The River (36/60)
Sotheby’s New-York: 2 November 2012
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 56,250

 

 

 

---

View from the Window

---

 

View from the Window
from Landscape Series

Medium: Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1985
Image: 76 5/8 x 30 5/8 inches (194.6 x 77.8 cm)
Sheet: 79 5/8 x 33 5/8 inches (202.2 x 85.4 cm)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 11
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 215, Gemini 1257, RLCR 3461

View from the Window, 1985 (RLCR 3461) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp and inkstamp of the publisher on the reverse

The composition for View from the Window is loosely based on Max Beckmann’s painting Evening on the Terrace (Collection Richard L. Feigen, New York), a view of the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen painted in 1928. Lichtenstein’s large format mixed-media print belongs to a series called Landscapes, begun in 1984, in which the artist revisited landscape paintings by modern masters, rendering them in his signature cartoon-like brushstrokes. His homage is full of whimsy and humor. Whilst Beckmann’s view is dark and brooding, Lichtenstein’s treatment evokes the sunny Mediterranean of Matisse and the Fauves, an art historical quip and playful subversion of the Expressionist’s original intent. This effect is achieved with a much wider range of colours than in his earlier prints, with pastel pinks, blues, greens, yellows and metallic silver, supplementing his staple palette of primary colours.

Riva Castleman notes that in his Landscapes Lichtenstein departs from the isolated ‘abstract’ brushstroke of his earlier oeuvre, and instead employs the strokes to define a scene, an open window with a bunch of flowers, looking onto a view of sea and sky, with the sail of a boat in the distance. ‘However much it may be presumed that the artist now conveys depth and atmosphere where he always distinguished his work as flat and made with marks that emphasized and maintained that flatness’, Castleman continues, `his methods remain the same, but demonstrate that even compositions that presume to give the impression of near and far are still marks on a flat surface. The marks that make the boat are little different from those that make the frame of the window or the adjacent water…the Landscapes accentuate the preposterous conventions of picture-making itself’. (Riva Castleman, Seven Master Print-Makers – Innovations in the Eighties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, exh. cat. 1991, p. 92).

Auction Results

---

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 101,600

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window (Corlett 215), 1985
From Landscape Series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 6⁄60
(there were also eleven artist’s proofs)

Pop Impressions: Prints from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 22 October 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 165,100
AUCTION RECORD FOR VIEW FROM THE WINDOW

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window (Corlett 215; RLCR 3461), 1985
From the Landscapes series
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed AP 3/11
This impression is one of 11 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 60
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 101,600

Sotheby’s New-York: 22 October 2024
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 102,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
View from the Window, from Landscapes (Corlett 215), 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Sheet: 79 1/2 x 33 5/8 inches (202.1 x 85.4 cm)
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed RTP
This impression is a right to produce proof aside from the numbered edition of 60 plus 11 artist’s proofs

XXXXXXXXXX

Waddington’s Toronto: 10 November 2022
Estimated: CAD 90,000 – 120,000
CAD 108,000 / USD 79,835

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997), American
VIEW FROM THE WINDOW (FROM “LANDSCAPES SERIES”), 1985
[CORLETT, 215; GEMINI G.E.L, 1257]
Monumental lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colours, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated “85” and numbered 53/60, (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

Phillips London: 15 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 60,000 – 80,000
GBP 75,600 / USD 87,419

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
View from the Window, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 47/60 in pencil (there were also 11 artist’s proofs)

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 18 April 2019
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 100,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window, from Landscapes, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2/60

Christie’s London: 21 March 2019
Estimated: GBP 50,000 – 70,000
GBP 56,250

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window, from: Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 47/60

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s London: 20 September 2018
Estimated: GBP 60,000 – 80,000
GBP 68,750 / USD 91,230

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window, from: Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 34/60

XXXXXXXXXX

Christie’s New-York: 24 October 2017
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 125,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
View from the Window, from Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55/60

XXXXXXXXXX

Phillips New-York: 25 April 2016
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 191,000
AUCTION RECORD FOR VIEW FROM THE WINDOW

 

---

Sunshine Through the Clouds

---

Sunshine Through the Clouds
from Landscape Series

Medium: Lithograph, woodcut, and screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1985
Image: 52 5/8 x 37 inches (133.7 x 94 cm)
Sheet: 55 1/2 x 40 inches (141 x 101.6 cm)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 11
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 216, Gemini 1258, RLCR 3458

Sunshine Through the Clouds, 1985 (RLCR 3458) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp and inkstamp of the publisher on the reverse

 

Auction Results

---

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 120,650
AUCTION RECORD FOR SUNSHINE THROUGH THE CLOUDS

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Sunshine through the Clouds (Corlett 216), 1985
From Landscape Series 
Lithograph, woodcut and screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 6⁄60

XXXXXXXXXX

Phillips New-York: 20 April 2023
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 92,250

Bonhams LA: 29 March 2022
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 102,812

Christie’s New-York: 24 October 2017
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 100,000

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Sunshine Through the Clouds, from Landscape Series, 1985
Lithograph, woodcut and screen-print in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55/60 (there were also eleven artist’s proofs)