The ’60s thanks to the rise of Pop Art represent a period of rupture in the history of: colors, representations and figurative language undergo a radical change. One of its greatest exponents was Roy Lichtenstein, which represented a new vision of America through a language very similar to the comics making: dots and bright colors, blacks and sharp contours are the features of his works engaging one of the main issues of Pop Art, namely the semantic identity of the objects and of the contexts of daily use.

In 1963 the artist created The woman in the bathroom, the portrait of a female figure in a bathroom, all strictly outlined by a style reminiscent of the comic books of that period. In the work can be seen, once again, how an intimate and private environment can be used as a backdrop to represent a moment of daily life: in this case there is a smiling woman immersed in a bathtub full of foam. The prevalent tones of the painting are: optical white and electric blue, the tiles also have depicted through the use of vertical and horizontal blue lines, schematic and without decoration elements. The viewer’s attention is then captured by the girl’s lips, a load of scarlet color.

The work focused on the bathroom environment is part of a triptych of artworks very similar to each other, through which Roy Lichtenstein wanted to represent the ideal of the modern woman projected toward emancipation.