Girl With Flowered Hat
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Roy Lichtenstein
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
50 x 40 cm | 20 x 16 in
2026
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Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat (1963) is a Pop Art reimagining of Pablo Picasso’s portrait of his lover and muse, Dora Maar.
Lichtenstein replaced Picasso’s moody, complex palette, dark hair, and expressive brushstrokes with his signature primary colors and flat planes, transforming Dora Maar into a bright-yellow-haired, blue-eyed American comic-strip archetype.
Through this radical adaptation, Lichtenstein comments on how consumer culture consumes art, illustrating how mass media demands everything—even high-art tragedy—to be packaged into something clean, standardized, cheerful, and ready to sell.
This painting jokingly tests that exact theory: if you add a beautiful woman to a piece of high art, will it sell faster?
All the best, Gerard
