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Bellagio Hotel Mural: Still Life with Reclining Nude (Study)
Roy Lichtenstein American
Not on view
In 1996, Lichtenstein was commissioned to produce two companion pieces for the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. These large works were to replace two paintings by Willem de Kooning directly behind the reception desk in the casino lobby. Lichtenstein, who had worked on mural projects since the 1960s, died before he could translate this preparatory collage into a painting. The work unites hallmarks of Lichtenstein’s art, such as his fascination with mirrors; his use of Ben-Day dots for shading, inspired by comic books of the 1950s and 1960s; and his references to art history—in this case allusions to Constructivism (in the background) and to Matisse’s sculpture Reclining Nude (1906–7).
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