Beyond the canvas: celebrating Lichtenstein’s lesser-known sculptures

With their bold, primary colors, in-your-face composition and comic book aesthetic, Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings are instantly recognizable. An icon of pop art, his work fused the high with the low, creating art that was energetic, broadly appealing and very, very fun.

Compared with the paintings, Lichtenstein’s sculptures have received relatively less attention, a fact that Gagosian capitalizes on with its show Lichtenstein Remembered, curated by Irving Blum, celebrating the artist’s centenary with a show all about his otherly, two-dimensional sculptures. The show is a tightly curated, beguiling look at a different side of a well-known titan of 20th-century