"Brushstroke Nude" by Roy Lichtenstein

This piece of sculpture called "Brushstroke Nude" (1993) by Roy Lichtenstein was briefly on display outside the Phillips du Pury and Company on Park Avenue before it was auctioned last Wednesday. The painted cast aluminum (144 1/2 x 42 x 30 in. or 367 x 106.7 x 76.2 cm) is number one from an edition of three. It sold for $5,458,500 according to the Phillips du Pury and Company website.

"Times Square Mural", Subway Art by Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein created this mural called "Times Square Mural" made of porcelain enamel on a wall of the Time Square station (N, Q, R, S, W, 1, 2, 3 mezzanine). The 6-foot-high, 53-foot-long mural revisits the history of New York transportation, and captures the spirit of the subway, with its linear movement and dynamic energy. The central image is a futuristic bullet shaped car, resembling a winged spaceship zipping through an underground station. The first panel shows a portion of an arch made of tile and masonry, the materials of the 1904 subway. The second arch is made of steel, representing the Machine Age of the 1930's. The 42 image takes its inspiration from the architectural detail of the subway.

"DEGAS: DRAWINGS AND SKETCHBOOKS" and "ROY LICHTENSTEIN: THE BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS, 1961-1968" Open at The Morgan Library and Museum

The Morgan Library and Museum main entrance on Madison Avenue

Cover of Fall and Winter Schedule featuring Roy Lichtenstein's "I Know How You Must Feel, Brad" (1963) graphite pencil, pochoir and lithographic rubbing crayon

Two exhibitions opened today at the Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, "DEGAS: Drawings and Sketckbooks," and "ROY LICHTENSTEIN: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968." The former features more than twenty drawings by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) from the Morgan's collections that capture the artist's dynamic and varied use of drawing and includes some of the most quintessential subjects - from his earliest portraits of himself, family members, and friends to his later intensive studies of dancers and performers. The Lichtenstein exhibit presents an important series of large-scale, black-and-white works as a group for the first time and examines Lichtenstein's less known exploration of the medium of drawing. Created during the early and mid-1960s, the fifty-five drawings on view offer a revealing window into the development of Lichtenstein's art, as he began for the first time to appropriate commercial illustrations and comic strips as subject matter and experimented stylistically with simulating commercial techniques of reproduction—the famous Benday dots. The work represents an essential and original contribution to Pop Art as well as to the history of drawing. These exhibitions run until January 2011.

The Morgan Library and Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street.

BMW Art Cars by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Rauschenberg

Frank Stella

The second BMW public art installation at Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall is a collection of four iconic BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. The BMW Art Car project was founded in 1975. Sixteen of the world’s most respected artists, including the four whose works are on exhibit, have designed BMW Art Cars. The cars have been exhibited by museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Louvre in Paris and the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.