Still Life with Picasso
From Hommage to Picasso
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Year: 1973
Image: 28 3/8 x 21 inches (72.2 x 53.2 cm)
Sheet: 30×22 inches (76.2 x 56 cm)
Edition: 90
Other Impressions: 30 numbered in Roman numerals
Artist’s Proofs: 15
Publishers: Proyläen Verlag, Berlin and Panthéone Presse, Rome
Printer: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Literature: Corlett 127
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the printer’s blindstamp
In Still Life with Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein playfully merges his own Pop aesthetic with the Cubist legacy of Pablo Picasso, crafting a witty visual homage that’s equal parts parody and reverence. Created in 1973, this screenprint belongs to Lichtenstein’s celebrated Still Life series, which reinterprets a classic genre through the lens of modern visual culture. Here, Lichtenstein assembles a tableau of fruit, a ceramic jug filled with paintbrushes, and the unmistakable outline of a face drawn in a style evocative of Picasso himself. With his trademark Ben-Day dots and bold black outlines, Lichtenstein simplifies and flattens the forms, transforming a traditional still life into a vibrant, almost cartoonish abstraction.
The composition reads as both tribute and playful critique: Picasso’s fragmented visage stares from the right as if contemplating the tools of the artist’s trade: the brushes, the fruit, the saturated color fields. There is a subtle dialogue here between artistic generations: the avant-garde rebellion of Cubism meeting the mass-media savvy of Pop Art. Executed in rich yellow, brown, and blue tones, Still Life with Picasso stands as a vibrant reflection on art history, authorship, and influence. It remains one of the most iconic prints of the series and a witty visual testament to Lichtenstein’s knack for appropriating and reinventing the language of painting.
Auction Results
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein
Sotheby’s New-York: 26 September 2025
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 76,200
AUCTION RECORD FOR STILL LIFE WITH PICASSO
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Still Life with Picasso, from the Hommage à Picasso portfolio (Corlett 127), 1973
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed and dated ’73 (lower right); inscribed E.A. (lower left)
One of 30 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 90
Koller Zurich: 20 June 2024
Estimated: CHF 20,000 – 30,000
CHF 20,000 / USD 22,300
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 New York 1997)
Still life with Picasso, 1973
Color screenprint on firm vélin by Arches
8/90. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: rf Lichtenstein ’73
Van Ham: 1 June 2022
Estimated: EUR 20,000
EUR 43,560 / USD 46,930
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso (C. 127), 1973
Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 29/90 in pencil
Seoul Auction: 26 April 2022
Estimated: KRW 30,000,000 – 50,000,000
KRW 44,840,000 / USD 35,865
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso (C. 127), 1973
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered 37/90 in pencil on the recto
Phillips London: 20 January 2022
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 9,000
GBP 32,760 / USD 44,690
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso (C. 127), 1973
Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 35/90 in pencil
K Auction Seoul: 29 September 2021
Estimated: KRW 25,000,000 – 45,000,000
KRW 28,750,000 / USD 24,260
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso, 1973
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered 27/90 in pencil on the lower right
Phillips London: 15 June 2021
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 9,000
GBP 36,540 / USD 51,525
AUCTION RECORD FOR STILL LIFE WITH PICASSO
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso (C. 127), 1973
Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered 55/90 in pencil
Christie’s London: 19 September 2018
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 35,000 / USD 46,085
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Still Life with Picasso, from: Hommage à Picasso, 1973
Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered V/XXX
A trial proof aside from the edition of ninety