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The painting was sold for $ 210,000 (US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|210000|1980|r=0}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}) on May 15, 1980 at [[Sotheby's]], New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/asi/lots/1032817|title=Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 - 1997): Oh Jeff, I love you too, but ..|accessdate=2012-05-15|work=Blouin Art Sales Index}}</ref> At the time, the work was part of the Abrams family collection.<ref>{{cite news|title=Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture|date=May 1980|page=29|work=[[Art in America]]|volume=68|issue=5}}</ref> As of February 3, 1994, the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' reported that it was part of the Stefan T. Edlis Collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-03/news/vw-18388_1_charles-schulz|title=Good Grief! Show Will Salute Schulz|accessdate=2012-05-15|date=1994-02-03|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Loper, Mary Lou}}</ref>

After 1963, Lichtenstein's comics-based women "...look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of makeup." This particular example is one of several that is cropped so closely that the hair flows beyond the edges of the canvas.<ref>{{cite book|title=Roy Lichtenstein|publisher=[[Praeger Publishers]]|editor=Coplans, John|page=23|chapter=On Lichtenstein|date=1998}}</ref>

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