Few faces embody American Pop Art as much as this one. Roy Lichtenstein's "Crying Girl" from 1963 is a 20th-century icon. The work masterfully plays with the clichés of comic books of the time: the "damsel in distress"—beautiful, blonde, and dissolved in tears—captured in a moment of maximum dramatic tension.

Lichtenstein isolates this emotional moment and freezes it through his precise grid technique (Ben-Day dots) and thick black outlines. The result is a cool, almost industrial aesthetic that stands in sharp contrast to the depicted emotion – it is precisely this ambivalence that makes the work so fascinating.

This print was created in 1963 for an exhibition at the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. It is listed in Mary Lee Corlett's catalogue raisonné under number II.1. While many copies from this period have been lost or cropped, here you have the opportunity to acquire a copy hand-signed by the artist. The signature elevates this print, originally conceived as an invitation, to a highly sought-after collector's item. A piece of New York art history that perfectly captures the aesthetics of the 1960s.