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Six Bulls. Bull V – Antique Print

Six Bulls. Bull V, 1973 — antique lithograph
Six Bulls. Bull V, 1973. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Bull V is the fifth panel in a set of six bulls, numbered 60 of 100 and signed and dated by hand in pencil. The caption card dates it to 1973, though that detail is unverified, and the series is generally associated with the mid-1980s, when Roy Lichtenstein turned to Pablo Picasso's famous sequence of bull lithographs from the 1940s. Picasso's studies strip a bull down step by step to a few bold lines, and Lichtenstein borrows that process, reducing the animal to flat color and simplified contour. The print is worth studying for how it joins two artists' approaches, using a pop vocabulary to revisit an older exercise in reduction.

Created / published1973
Medium1 print : six col. lithograph/screen/linocut.
SubjectsSix col. lithograph/screen/linocut by Roy Lichtenstein, 1923- . 60/100. Signed and dated in pencil. Pennell and other funds. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals--Bulls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145793

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