“Big Painting No 6” | screenprint | limited edition
Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most famous representatives of Pop Art. In his early work, he was strongly influenced by Expressionism. In the 1960s, he painted his first large-format comic pictures. The “Benday Dots” are characteristic of his paintings. They were invented by Benjamin Day to create industrial illustrations. Lichtenstein’s paintings are based on the typical screen printing process, in which individual pixels can be recognized. The use of halftone dots simulates industrial production.
This screenprint by Roy Lichtenstein is a reproduction of his famous painting “Big Painting No 6”, published in collaboration with the artist’s estate.
Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection
VITA ROY LICHTENSTEIN (short form)
1923 born in Manhattan, New York City, USA | 1939 Art Students League | 1949 School of Fine Arts, Ohio State University | 1951 Technical draftsman and designer of corrugated tin cans | 1949 first exhibition at the Ten-Thirty-Gallery, Cleveland | 1957-60 Assistant Professor, New State University Oswego | 1960-63 Rutgers University New Jersey | 1997 died in Manhattan, New York City, USA
AWARDS AND WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
1995 Kyoto Prize, Japan | 1995 National Medal of Arts, USA | 1996 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts George Washington University, USA
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA | Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, USA | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, USA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA | Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA | Berardo Museum – Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain | Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland | Tate Britain, London, England | Tate Modern, London, England | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland | Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main | Ludwig Galerie – Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen | Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art – Budapest, Budapest, Hungary | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran | Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRE, Naples, Italy | MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia | Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney – MCA, Sydney, NSW, Australia | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK, Vienna, Austria | National Gallery of Canada – Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark | Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland | MAMAC – Musee d’Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France | IAC – Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeu