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Big Painting No. 6

🎨 1965 painting by Roy Lichtenstein
👨‍🎨 Roy Lichtenstein
📅 1965
🖼️ Painting

Big Painting No. 6 is a 1965 oil and Magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Measuring 235 cm × 330 cm, it is part of the Brushstrokes series of artworks that includes several paintings and sculptures whose subject is the actions made with a house-painter's brush.

It set a record auction price for a painting by a living American artist when it sold for $75,000 in 1970. The painting is in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection. As with all of his Brushstrokes works, it is in part a satirical response to the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism.

Like most of Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dots works it is a depiction of mechanical reproduction via painterly technique. In this case, the satire comes from the depiction of the graphical depiction of the spontaneous painting motion in painstaking painterly detail.

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