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"When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ..." — Roy Lichtenstein

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein Artist • American
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