 The painting was bestowed to the Guggenheim Museum after Lichtenstein 's 1997 death , following a promise made in 1992 . The museum used Grrrrrrrrrrr ! ! in the promotional posters for the 1993 exhibition " Roy Lichtenstein : A Retrospective " , which ran from October 7 , 1993 – January 16 , 1994 . Other notable exhibitions where this work was shown include " Rendezvous : Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums " which ran from October 16 , 1998 – January 24 , 1999 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York , as well as " Art in America : 300 Years of Innovation " which traveled to several museums in China between 2007 and 2008 . 
