"Oh, Jeff ... I love you too ... But ..." ( Eng. Oh, Jeff ... I Love You, Too ... But ... ) is a pop art painting created by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1964 year. It is made with oil and Magna acrylic paint on canvas. As in many of his other works, its name comes from a text located in a cloud .
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Despite the fact that many sources, such as the Encyclopedia of Art, call it “ Boo! "And" The Sinking Girl "by the most famous works of Liechtenstein [1] [2] , the artist Vian Shamunki Borchert noted" Oh, Jeff ... I love you too ... But ... "as his most important work, calling it the Mona Lisa of Liechtenstein [ 3] . The British edition of the Daily Mail also ranked this work, along with “Bu-ooh!” And “Sinking Girl”, one of the most famous in the artist’s work, during a retrospective of the work of Liechtenstein in the London Tate Modern Gallery [4] . Borchert noted that this painting creates “magic”, including due to the “painfulness” and “beautiful blue-eyed with blond hair and full lips” of a woman, “whose sad eyes seem to give in to what seems like a doomed love relationship” [3 ] .
Measuring 121.9 by 121.9 cm, “Oh, Jeff ... I love you too ... But ...” is one of the most famous of his early derivatives from the comic book of the period when he adapted comics and advertising to his style using the dot technique Ben Day The picture reproduces a common storyline for comics, depicting temporary adversity in a love relationship between two people [5] . The sketch for this work measuring 12.1 by 12.1 cm was made by Liechtenstein using graphite and colored pencils on paper [6] .
In the early 1960s, Liechtenstein created several paintings of "fictional drama", depicting women in love relationships with powerful men, forcing them to be unhappy. These include Sinking Girl , Hopeless , and In the Car . They served as a prelude to the 1964 paintings about naive "girls in the neighborhood" in various subtle emotional states, such as "Oh, Jeff ... I love you too ... But ..." [7] . The graphics of the work quite clearly show the heroine’s frustration, and the text in the cloud enhances the romantic context and emotional dissonance [8] . After 1963, the look of women borrowed from comics by Liechtenstein became “tough, lively, fragile and evenly fashionable, as if they all came out of the same jar of makeup.” In addition, the composition of this work by Liechtenstein is cut so close that the woman’s hair does not fit on canvas [9] . The creation "Oh, Jeff ... I love you too ... But ..." refers to the period of Liechtenstein's highest passion for enlarged points, cropping and increasing the source [10] . The melodramatic nature of the painting draws additional attention of museum visitors to it during exhibitions [3] .
The painting was sold for $ 210,000 on May 15, 1980 at the Sotheby 's auction in New York [11] . Prior to this, the work was part of the collection of the Abrams family [12] . As of February 3, 1994, according to the Los Angeles Times , it was kept in the collection of Stefan T. Edlis [13] .
Notes
- ↑ Roy Lichtenstein: Biography of American Pop Artist, Comic-Strip-style Painter . Encyclopedia of Art. Date of appeal September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Cronin, Brian. Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent ?: And Other Amazing Comic Book Trivia! . - Penguin Books .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Vian Shamounki, Borchert Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC . Gaithersburg Patch (December 11, 2012). Date of appeal September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Kirkova, Deni. Pop goes the Tate! Iconic works of Roy Lichtenstein brought together for exciting new exhibition at the Tate Modern . Daily Mail (February 19, 2013). Date of appeal September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Stokstad, Marilyn. Art in the United States And Europe since World War II // Art History. - Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. . - P. 1129. - “ Oh, Jeff , for example, compresses into a single frame the generic romance-comic story line, in which two people fall in love, face some sort of crisis, or" but, "that temporarily threatens their relationship, and then live happily ever after. ”. - ISBN 0-8109-1960-5 .
- ↑ Drawing for Oh Jeff ... I Love You Too ... But . Lichtenstein Foundation. Date of appeal September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Waldman, Diane. Roy Lichtenstein. - The Solomon Guggenheim Museum , 1993. - P. 113. - ISBN 0-89207-108-7 .
- ↑ Roy Lichtenstein. - Greenwood Publishing Group , 1972.- P. 16.
- ↑ Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology of Imagery and Art // Roy Lichtenstein / Coplans, John. - Greenwood Publishing Group , 1972. - P. 23. - "Very often a head is cropped to such an extent that the hair flows outside the borders of the format ...".
- ↑ Rondeau, James. Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective / James Rondeau, Sheena Wagstaff. - Chicago Institute of the Arts , 2012. - P. 32. - ISBN 978-0-300-17971-2 .
- ↑ Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997): Oh Jeff, I love you too, but ... . Blouin Art Sales Index . Date of appeal September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Art in America (May 1980), p. 29.
- ↑ Loper, Mary Lou Good Grief! Show Will Salute Schulz . The Los Angeles Times (February 3, 1994). Date of appeal September 10, 2019.