and Drowning Girl as Lichtenstein's most famous works,[1][2] artist Vian Shamounki Borchert believes it is this piece, calling it his Mona Lisa.

[3] Borchert notes that this painting captures "the magic" of its "anguished and yes [sic] beautiful blue-eyed, blond hair, full lips" female subject while presenting "sad eyes that seem to give in to what seems to be a doomed love affair".

is among the most famous of his early romance comic derivative works from the period when he was adapting cartoons and advertisements into his style via Ben-Day dots.

[4] Lichtenstein adapted the work from a comic illustrated by Tony Abruzzo; the panel's actual text reads, "Oh, Danny, I'm so sorry!

These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states such as in Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But....