Still Life with Red Jar
Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Year: 1994
Image: 15 x 13 1/8 inches (38.1 x 33.3 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches (53.9 x 48.8 cm)
Edition: 250
Artist’s Proofs: 50 AP
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Printer: James Reid
Literature: Corlett (291), Gemini (1640), RLCR (4318)
Still Life with Red Jar, 1994 (RLCR 4318) | Catalogue entry | Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse
This print was executed as a benefit for Rivington House, an AIDS health care facility and an affiliate of the Village Center for Care, New York. Rivington House was under construction in 1994 and opened in 1995. Other artists who have produced prints to benefit Village Center for Care are Mary Frank and Louise Bourgeois.
Still Life with Red Jar features a composition of everyday objects: an apple, a peach, and the titular red jar, cropped closely and flattened against the picture plane. The image is rendered in Lichtenstein’s iconic style, characterized by bold black outlines, vibrant primary colors (red, yellow, and blue, with black and white accents), and Ben-Day dots, which simulate commercial printing techniques and create a sense of depth and texture. The forms are simplified, semi-abstract, and subtly “bent out of shape,” imbuing the scene with a sense of playful artificiality.
Lichtenstein applies his detached, mechanical aesthetic to a time-honored genre often associated with rich symbolism (e.g., vanitas paintings). By stripping the subject matter of intricate shading and perspective, he challenges traditional notions of artistic expression and originality. The use of a visual language borrowed from advertisements and comic books transforms the ordinary, mass-produced objects into a modern commentary on consumer culture and the ubiquity of images in 20th-century American life. The work actively highlights the tension between representation and abstraction and comments on the viability and resilience of the still life genre within a contemporary context
Auction Results
Christie’s New-York: 15 April 2026
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 27,940
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Still Life with Red Jar, 1994
(Corlett 291; Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonné 4318; Gemini 1621)
Screenprint in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed and dated in pencil
Numbered 238⁄250 (there were also fifty artist’s proofs)
Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
With their blindstamps and ink stamp on the reverse
Christie’s online: 26 February 2026
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 13,970
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
Still Life with Red Jar, 1994
(Corlett 291; Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonne 4318; Gemini 1621)
Screenprint in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 82/250
(there were also 50 artist’s proofs
Co-published by the artist and Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles to benefit Village Center of Care New York
With the publisher’s blindstamps and ink stamp on the reverse
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Mainichi Auction Tokyo: 19 July 2025
Estimated: JPY 1,500,000 – 2,000,000
JPY 2,415,000 / USD 16,240
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Sill Life with Red Jar (CORLETT 291), 1994
Screenprint
Signed, dated and ed. AP 50 in the lower right margin
With a stamp “published by Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles” on verso
Bonhams London: 25 June 2025
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 19,200 / USD 16,185
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923-1997)
Still Life with Red Jar (Corlett 291), 1994
Screenprint in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed, dated and numbered 3/250 in pencil
LA Modern: 8 January 2025
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 15,000
USD 19,500
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923–1997)
Still Life with Red Jar (Corlett 291), 1994
Screenprint in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor
Signed, dated and numbered to lower right ‘AP 33/50 rf Lichtenstein ’94’
This work is artist’s proof 33 of 50 apart from the edition of 250
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Sotheby’s New-York: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 24,000
USD 20,320
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 – 1997)
Still Life with Red Jar (C. 291), 1994
Screenprint in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed AP 43/50
One of 50 artist’s proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50
Bonhams New-York: 9 May 2023
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 31,875
AUCTION RECORD FOR STILL LIFE WITH RED JAR
Screen-print in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 105/250 (there were also 50 artist’s proofs)
Estimated: EUR 10,000 – 15,000
EUR 16,380 / USD 17,245
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Still Life with Red Jar (Corlett 291), 1994
Color screenprint on card
Signed and dated
Proof 177/250 (+50 AP, +RTP, +PP I, +PP III, +3 GEL, +30 SP, +C)
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 17,500
Screen-print in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed, dated and numbered to lower right ‘196/250 rf Lichtenstein 94’
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 15,000
USD 15,000
Screen-print in colors on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper
Signed, dated and numbered to lower right ‘156/250 R Lichtenstein 94’
Freeman’s: 17 November 2021
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 16,380
Dorotheum Vienna: 24 March 2020
Estimated: EUR 8,000
EUR 18,034 / USD 19,460
Sotheby’s London: 19 March 2020
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 15,000 / USD 17,570
Bonhams New-York: 1 November 2019
Estimated: USD 13,000 – 15,000
USD 18,825
Phillips New-York: 17 October 2017
Estimated: USD 7,000 – 10,000
USD 13,750
Doyle New-York: 1 May 2017
Estimated: USD 10,000 – 15,000
USD 12,500