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Yellow and Green Brushstrokes
Yellow and Green Brushstrokes is a 1966 oil and Magna on canvas pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It is part of the "Brushstrokes" series of artworks that includes several paintings and sculptures. It is located at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. As with all of his "Brushstrokes" works, it is in part a satirical response to the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism.
Background.
"Yellow and Green Brushstrokes" is located at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in
Frankfurt, Germany. The museum acquired the work from the collection of Karl Ströher in 1981. The source for the entire "Brushstrokes" series was Charlton Comics' "Strange Suspense Stories" 72 (October 1964) by Dick Giordano.
According to the Lichtenstein Foundation, Lichtenstein produced two distinct 1966 oil and Magna on canvases by the title "Yellow and Green Brushstrokes". The second one is smaller at 36 x 68 inches (91.4 x 172.7 cm). It involved much straighter brushstrokes.
The painting depicts