Who knows the original price of Roy Lichtenstein's “Whaam!” artwork?
Whaam! was included in Lichtenstein's second show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. The first show had opened in January 1963 and sold out before the opening. The second show then took place in September and October of 1963. We know that Whaam! was acquired by Castelli's former wife, art dealer Iliana Sonnabend, and that she sold it to the Tate Gallery in London in 1966 for £3,940. This acquisition was not popular with everyone in London. Influential sculptor and Tate trustee Barbara Hepworth criticized the purchase, along with art writer Herbert Read. But Lichtenstein's pop art style, which had been described in the New York Times as “typewriter pointillism,” won many adherents in the mid-1960s.The Tate acquisition of Whaam! was the year before British prime minister Harold Wilson's famous "pound in your pocket" devaluation of the pound, so a pound would have exchanged at $2.80, making the Tate sale price about $11,000 USD. In this era, governments still set exchange rates rather than the market, and the $2.80 rate was also in effect in 1963.By that time, Castelli and Sonnabend had been divorced for a few years (she had remarried art historian Michael Sonnabend in 1959) and she was aggressively buying American art for her Paris gallery, which she opened in 1962. Castelli and Sonnabend had remained close friends and business allies. It wasn't easy to get possession of a major Lichtenstein piece in 1963, and it was a matter of connections as much as of money. Then as now at this level in the art world, it wasn't entirely about the money.We don't know the original selling price, but given that it was large (6 x 13 feet), a major work, a friendly sale, but made after the first show sold out before the opening, and knowing what the painting resold for only 3 years later after some haggling, my guess would be about $7,000.What would Whaam!, arguably Lichtenstein’s most important painting, be worth in today’s market? $100 million USD maybe? But $7,000 was quite a bit of money in 1963. In that year, a fully-loaded Ford Galaxie car sold for $3,500. And a fully-loaded Big Mac was 28 cents.Ileana Sonnabend - WikipediaGraph of £/$ exchange rate (1940Whaam! - Wikipedia!
How do i do a roy Lichtenstein style drawing of ronaldo?
I suppose you'd want to do lots of research on his works, pick one or two and keep it at hand while you draw Ronaldo.