Roy Lichtenstein has produced some of the most enduringly iconic Pop images of the twentieth century. He gained experience as a draftsman in the US army, drawing maps and enlarging cartoons for the army newspaper ‘Stars and Stripes.’ Much influenced by the work of the European avant-garde he saw during the war, Lichtenstein was nonetheless drawn to images of Americana and cartoons evident in his first non-expressionistic work ‘Look Mickey’ (1961), based on pictures found in one of his children's books and containing his first dialogue balloon. At this time, Lichtenstein also developed his signature technique of reproducing Ben-Day dots, which he first created by applying oil paint onto a plastic-bristle dog-grooming brush and pressing it onto the canvas, later using a stencil technique that involved rolling paint across a handmade metal screen.
Lichtenstein began his ‘Interior’ series in 1990, including ‘Interior with Red Wall (Study)’ (1991) inspired by interiors in comics, the Yellow Pages and newspaper ads. The living room depicted is host to a mixture of generic modernist furniture and assorted works of art.