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Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... (sometimes Oh, Jeff) is a 1964 oil and magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Like many of Lichtenstein's works its title comes from the speech balloon in the painting.
| Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... | |
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| Artist | Roy Lichtenstein |
| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Pop art |
| Location | Private collection |
Measuring 121.9 cm × 121.9 cm (48 in × 48 in), Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... is among the most famous of his early romance comic derivative works from the period when he was adapting cartoons and advertisments into his style via Ben-Day dots. The work is said to depict the classic romance-comic story line of temporary adversity.[1] Lichtenstein's sketch for this was done in graphite and colored pencils on paper in a 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (12.1 x 12.1 cm) scale.[2]
In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein produced several "fantasy drama" paintings of women in love affairs with domineering men causing women to be miserable, such as Drowning Girl, Hopeless and In the Car. These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states.[3] Using only a single frame from its source, Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...'s graphics are quite indicative of frustration, but the text in the speech balloon augment the romantic context and the emotional discord.[4]
The painting was sold for $ 210,000 on May 15, 1980 at Sotheby's, New York.[5] At the time, the work was part of the Abrams family collection.[6]
Notes
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8109-1960-5.
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.
- ^ "Drawing for Oh Jeff...I Love You Too...But". Lichtenstein Foundation. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
- ^ Waldman, Diane (1993). Roy Lichtenstein. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. p. 113. ISBN 0-89207-108-7.
- ^ Coplans, John, ed. (1972). Roy Lichtenstein. Praeger Publishers. p. 16.
...the inclusion of the encapsulated legend "Oh, Jeff, I love you too, but..." immediately throws the image into a romantic context of unrequited passion.
- ^ "Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 - 1997): Oh Jeff, I love you too, but ." Blouin Art Sales Index. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
- ^ "Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture". Art in America. Vol. 68, no. 5. May 1980. p. 29.
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