This artwork, called Desk Calendar, was one of Lichtenstein’s lesser known pieces created in 1962 and was sold off to Italian Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo — co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) — for only US$400. Over time, the piece made its way back to MOCA where it currently resides.
As a leading figure in the new art movement of the 60s, American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein disrupted the traditional art world with his comic book-inspired stylings that featured thick outlines, bold colours and Ben-Day dots, as if created by photographic reproduction.
Often tongue-in-cheek, his work defined the premise of pop art through parody using advertising imagery to portray consumerism, homemaking, love and war. Some of his more famous works include Crying Girl and Kiss. Critics of the time challenged its originality, calling his work vulgar and empty. But for one particular Frenchman who currently resides in Singapore, a Lichtenstein work has quite literally changed his life.
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