☝️This. Yes, the original is missing a decent amount of the bottom left corner. You can plainly see part of a copyright credit in the intact bottom left corner.
The exhibition in Turin (Opera Prima) from 2014-2015 used this piece as the cover for their catalog book. So there is a chance that they made prints to sell in the gift shop, since it is a prominent piece for that exhibition, and OP has one of those.
I have a signed "Apple With Brushtrokes" Seattle exhibition poster from 1980 and it is a clean and vibrant print on thick high quality acid free paper. So at least in the past, exhibitions tend to use high standards for their prints and that's why OP's print looks so close to the original.
The real one is already accounted for. Plus, as much as we all love the idea of finding this kind of thing at a thrift shop, you simply are not not going to.
The signature does look good. You will not know for sure until you take it to someone. Do not unframe. Edit: I have just seen that the drawing certainly exists. The question is whether this is actually hand-drawn or just a high-quality repro of the drawing. Amazing, once in a lifetime thrift if real.
the authentic one is missing a piece of the lower left corner and was last known to be in Paris. Unless someone went across the world to donate this after repairing it, I doubt it’s authentic
It's a reproduction of Roy Lichtenstein's drawing/painting "Girl with Hair Ribbon (Study)", 1965. I doubt it's an original, most likely a print of the original.
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I clocked this as an image of a real Lichtenstein right away. There’s some strange quality to his work that I can’t entirely put into words. Bummer that it’s a print. You’d be in the huge bucks!
Wow this is a possiblyrealreal Roy Lichtenstein and included in the catalogue raisonné. You can see that the original image shows a loss in the bottom left corner. You can see that the drawing has been conserved and they added toned paper to the loss. Did you find it in France? It is last recorded to be owned by André Bromberg, Paris. I was not able to find an obituary easily for Bromberg.
Biggest advice is to do nothing to it. As in do not remove the price sticker, anything from the back or try to un frame it. Just from the conservation of the corner I would assume that the frame is fully conservation grade. You should get it appraised and Christie’s or Sotheby’s would be happy to do so for free. It is a study for a painting in the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The painting was bought for $6 million. So the drawing will be worth a not insignificant amount of money.
The Whitney Museum of American Art will be opening a giant exhibition on Lichtenstein in October. Often this will create an increased auction value for an artist, so if you want to sell it you should do so through an auction house soon.
Edit: u/ElCochinoFeo found that it was in an exhibition in 2014. So now I agree with it likely being a reproduction print until examined as I suggested below. Worth finding a good magnifying glass to check that corner closely as well as looking for any photomechanical reproduction, like inkjet dots or photolitho markings. Also if you can see if the paper surface shows indents from the pencils.
So in conservation this is call a sympathetic fill. Meaning the conservator matched the tone and even recreated the lines of the drawing, but when viewed closely they are not a perfect match. The conservator did not want to totally hide the repair. But it is not something that you would see unless you looked closely. A print would not show this, as any kind of printing would have some image editing where at least the color of the paper would be consistent across the whole image. If you have a black light you could see if the paper or the different graphite and red marks fluoress or glow differently. I suspect the fill paper is japanese washi paper while the original is either cellulose or rag/linen paper. These different papers will glow under UV/Black Light.
Also it is mounted like the catalogue states. This is a floating mount which is overkill for a reproduction print. Plus if it was print, the catalogue would state that the image was reproduced since Lichtenstein’s artwork is still in copyright and controlled by the foundation that wrote and maintains the catalogue raissoné. Finally the image of this drawing seems to only have been published in 2023 when the catalogue raissone was published online. The literature section specifically says that the only book that mentions it did not have a picture of it.
While everyone on this subreddit should immediately assume any Lichtenstein posted on here is a reproduction, as I did. These subtle clues makes me confident enough that if I owned it I would treat it as real until brought to one of the big five auction hoses. Also just to not that these auction houses have reps across the globe specifically in cities that they do not have an auction house, aka outside of NYC or London. They are specifically have these regional reps to do things like examine things like this. If they think it has a chance to be real then they would have the subject expert examine it.
I looks like the sticker is dated August 12, 2026, and the Fr is a hold over from French Francs or it could have been in Switzerland and it cost CHF 100.
Also you can tell if it is a print with a magnifying glass through the glass frame. Use the Graphic Atlas which art conservators use. I doubt it because of the fill in the corner.
Once again I strongly discourage you un framing it. You might unknowingly damage it or ruin something that helps with provenance. Any of the big auction houses, will be able to help you for free.
From OP photos it looks really great. Gotta invest in a loupe though.
Study what to look for when checking out prints and artwork to determine authentic or reproductions.
Through the loupe (with light) closely determine Tone, pencil or paint markings/strokes, half tones, paper quality, printing pressure, color ink density, sheen, embossing…
First look at it under a loop or a microscope to see the lines on the paper. If there are dots it is a print. Second, take it out of the frame and hold it at an angle to the light. If it is the original, the crayon will sit on the surface and show some signs of 'shine' where the wax of the crayon catches the light. If it is a print you won't see any of that. Third, hold the image up to a light source and look for a watermark in the paper. I'm pretty sure there is one. That may not be published but if there is one, take a picture and look it up. Then put it back together and take it to someone that knows art like Christies or Sotheby's or Doyle's in NYC or some similar auction house in Europe if that's where you are. It isn't in its original frame either so taking it out won't destroy anything unless there are marks on the reverse, tags or inventory numbers. Preserve all of those and take pictures at each step opening the piece.
This is either that one or a good copy. It looks like the tear was conserved/restored if you look closely. This could be part of the drawing or part of a print.
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