:Ohhh...Alright...

In November 2010, Ohhh...Alright..., previously owned by Steve Martin and later by Steve Wynn,{{cite web|author=Crow, Kelly|date=October 1, 2010|access-date=May 15, 2012|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704483004575524231729585038|title=Pop Goes the Art Market: A $40 Million Lichtenstein?|work=Wall Street Journal}} was sold at a record US $42.6 million (£26.7 million) at a sale at Christie's in New York, which surpassed the 2005 $16.2 million Lichtenstein record set when In the Car sold.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11732551|title=Roy Lichtenstein painting fetches $42.6m at auction|publisher=BBC News|date=November 11, 2010|access-date=November 11, 2010}} The hammer price was $38 million.{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/features/roy-lichtenstein-ohhh-alright-1139-3.aspx|title=In the Saleroom: Roy Lichtenstein's Ohhh...Alright..., 1964|access-date=May 16, 2012|publisher=Christie's|date=November 11, 2010}} It was surpassed in the following year by I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!, which sold for $43.2 million.{{cite web|author=Kazakina, Katya and Philip Boroff|date=November 9, 2011|access-date=May 15, 2012|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/roy-lichtenstein-peephole-painting-sets-43-million-record-at-christie-s.html|title=Roy Lichtenstein Peephole Sets $43 Million Record at Christie's|publisher=Bloomberg}}

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Measuring 91.4 cm × 96.5 cm (36 in × 38 in), Ohhh...Alright... is derived from the June 1963 edition of Secret Hearts #88 by Arleigh Publishing Corp. (now part of D. C. Comics).{{cite web|url=http://image-duplicator.com/main.php?work_id=0213&year=1964&decade=60|title=Ohhh.|access-date=May 20, 2012|publisher=Lichtenstein Foundation}} After 1963, Lichtenstein's comics-based women "...look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of makeup." This particular example is one of several that are cropped so closely that the hair flows beyond the edges of the canvas.{{cite book|title=Roy Lichtenstein|publisher=Praeger Publishers|editor=Coplans, John|page=23|chapter=Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology of Imagery and Art|year=1972|quote=Very often a head is cropped to such an extent that the hair flows outside the borders of the format...}} The image was featured in the edition of November 8, 1993 of Time, which discussed the 1993 Lichtenstein retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979544,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604005431/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979544,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2008|title=The Image Duplicator|access-date=May 20, 2012|date=November 8, 1993|work=Time|author=Hughes, Robert|url-access=subscription }} It was also the image used to promote the 2012 Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.{{cite news|work=Chicago Tribune|title=Advertising insert|date=May 6, 2012}} This was painted at the apex of Lichtenstein's use of enlarged dots, cropping and magnification of the original source.{{cite book|title=Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective|publisher=Art Institute of Chicago|author=Rondeau, James and Sheena Wagstaff|isbn=978-0-300-17971-2|year=2012|page=32|editor=Rigas, Maia M.}}

The exhibition history of this work includes three 21st-century exhibitions: Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, April–September 2001; London, Hayward Gallery; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art, August 2003-February 2005; New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lichtenstein: Girls, May–June 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5371690|title=Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997): Ohhh...Alright...|access-date=May 16, 2012|publisher=Christie's}}

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• [http://image-duplicator.com/main.php?work_id=0213&year=1964&decade=60 Lichtenstein Foundation website]
• [http://www.christies.com/features/2355_5-1083-4.aspx Christies presentation]
• [http://www.christies.com/features/roy-lichtenstein-ohhh-alright-1139-3.aspx Showroom video]
• [http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=4382 record-setting sale press release]

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