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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen-Webb's
• Sale Name:
  The Peter Jarvis & Helene Phillips Collection
• Sale Date:
  30 Nov 2017 ~ 6.30pm (New Zealand Daylight Time)
• Lot #:
  36
• Lot Description:
  Dick Frizzell
  Big Guy
  enamel on board, 1982
  000mm x 1000mm
  signed FRIZZELL, inscribed "BIG GUY" and dated 14/2/82 in enamel lower left
• Notes:
  ESSAY: Home is Where the Art Is, a 1981 exhibition of Dick Frizzell’s work at Elva Bett Gallery, included the artist’s Backyard series, which featured paintings of gardening implements, washing baskets and gumboots. In this series, each object is isolated against a plain-coloured ground. Building on this composition, Frizzell began to make use of commercial signs and characters that confronted him in his immediate urban environment. He started to compile these images and present them alongside popular images from advertising logos like Frosty Boy, the smiley Fanta orange face and the Four Square Man. Big Guy belongs to this body of work and features a montage of images based on hand-painted signs for milkshakes, ice cream and chicken alongside images taken from advertising for products, including a hamburger, a soft serve ice cream (Frosty Boy), a milkshake and spaceman packaging from children’s confectionery. These commercial signs and logos are painted alongside local figures, captured by Frizzell as they consume commercial products: an adolescent drinking a can of Coca-Cola, a bearded, middle-aged man ordering takeaways at a counter and a yellow Auckland bus filled with commuters journeying through an urban landscape dominated by advertising.
• Estimate:
  NZ$18,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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