Big Painting No. 6
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| Artist | Roy Lichtenstein |
| Year | 1965 |
| Movement | Pop art |
| Dimensions | 235 cm × 330 cm (92.5 in × 129 in) |
| Location | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
Big Painting No. 6 (sometimes Big Painting or Big Painting VI) is a 1965 oil and Magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Measuring 235 cm × 330 cm (92.5 in × 129 in), 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 $60,000 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.
In early 1970, Andy Warhol established the record auction price for a painting by a living American artist with a $60,000 (US$370,026 in 2016 dollars) sale of Big Campbell's Soup Can with Torn Label (Vegetable Beef) (1962), which is part of the Campbell's Soup Cans series, in a sale at Parke-Bernet, the preeminent American auction house of the day (later acquired by Sotheby's). This record was broken in November 1970 by Lichtenstein's Big Painting No. 6 with an auction sale for $75,000 (US$462,532 in 2016 dollars) to German art dealer Rudolf Zwirner.
The source for the entire Brushstrokes series was Charlton Comics' Strange Suspense Stories 72 (October 1964) by Dick Giordano.Big Painting No. 6 is in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection in Düsseldorf.
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