Reflections on Girl (C.245) brought Lichtenstein's iconic female figures — the blonde, wide-eyed women of his early 1960s comic-book paintings and prints — into the Reflection Series, the figure's face and yellow hair fragmenting across the diagonal silver bands. The girl's gaze, already a charged formal element in the original works, persisted through the interruption of the reflective strips, her expression partly visible, partly obscured.

Roy Lichtenstein had returned to the female figure throughout his career, and the Reflection Series allowed him to examine that return with unusual self-awareness. The figures of the early 1960s had been among the most discussed and debated images of his career — their relationship to questions of representation, gender, and the male gaze central to critical responses to his work. Reflections on Girl (C.245) placed those images in a context of explicit reflection, the silver bands not only fragmenting the figure visually but introducing the metaphor of self-examination into a subject that had always carried it implicitly.

The technical construction — lithograph, screenprint, relief, and metalized PVC collage with embossing on Somerset paper — gave the work a physical richness that reinforced its conceptual complexity. The embossing added a tactile dimension, the relief marks sitting proud of the surface and introducing a depth that the flat print image consistently refused. Reflections on Girl (C.245) was among the most formally and conceptually layered works in the Reflection Series — a work in which the history of an image, the conventions of reflection, and the material properties of the print all converged.
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