Roy Lichtenstein Haystack Series Prints For Sale

The Haystack Series marks the moment Roy Lichtenstein started thinking about prints as a series in the first place, a shift that traces directly back to a 1968 exhibition called Serial Imagery, which introduced him to the idea of repeating a single subject across multiple works the way Monet had with his own haystack paintings decades earlier. He began exploring the subject in his own paintings that same year, continuing through 1969 when the series was printed, marking his first collaboration with the workshop that would go on to produce much of his later print output. Ten prints make up the group: seven numbered Haystacks running in sequence from a bright yellow morning light through to a black, embossed midnight, plus three additional state impressions pulled from the plates used for Haystack #6, all worked under printers Kenneth Tyler, Stuart Henderson and Jeff Wasserman.

Where Monet built his haystacks from thick, visible brushwork that shifted with the light and the season, Lichtenstein rebuilds the same subject entirely from Ben-Day dots and flat colour, standardising the older artist's loose, atmospheric technique into something closer to a printed pattern. Asked how he saw the difference between his Haystack paintings and the prints, Lichtenstein was characteristically blunt: "The prints are a little smaller, but that's not significant. The paintings are all different images." The comment captures how he treated the two mediums, not as a hierarchy with paintings as the "real" work and prints as a lesser copy, but as genuinely separate images built from the same subject.

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