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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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