Nude with Blue Hair, State I (C.287) applies a new colour scheme to the composition of Nude with Blue Hair, extending Roy Lichtenstein’s use of the state variant within the Nudes Series. While the image itself remains unchanged, the altered palette shifts the rhythm and atmosphere of the work, demonstrating how strongly colour shaped Lichtenstein’s printmaking.

Across his major print series, state variants allowed Lichtenstein to revisit familiar images through different chromatic conditions. In Nude with Blue Hair, State I, colour becomes the final variable through which the figure is reconsidered. The cooler tonal relationships and altered contrasts create a noticeably different visual experience despite the fixed structure of the image.

The work forms part of a broader pattern that runs throughout Lichtenstein’s print catalogue, where repetition becomes a method of experimentation rather than duplication.

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