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The late pop art master Roy Lichtenstein's sculpture "Five Brushstrokes" has been in place in front of The New Orleans Museum of Art for exactly a year. But at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 10), NOMA officially welcomed the 20-foot-tall painted aluminum landmark with a ceremony in front of the museum at 1 Collins Diboll Circle.

Art benefactors Sydney and Walda Besthoff, who bought the sculpture for the museum, spoke, as did NOMA Director Susan Taylor and Jack Cowart, executive director of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has acquired "Five Brushstrokes," a monumental work by Roy Lichtenstein, commissioned in the early 1980s but never before assembled.

The work will be unveiled in its completion for the first time in August at the IMA. The sculpture is considered to be Lichtenstein’s most ambitious work in his Brushstroke series.