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What painting in the national art gallery am i thinking of? Looking for...

Theres this painting (and I have no idea if its even still there) that i saw over a decade ago in the natioanl art gallery.

Its a big ass painting (Bigger than the tallest man that ever lived) and it has 3 stripes. The two outter stripes are coloured dark blue. The middle strip is coloured orange/red.

And I remember that the tour guide had said it cost the national art gallery like over a million dollars when they bought it (in the 90s?).

When I was a kid, I saw this painting in a high school field trip and that made me feel a certain way about art and it really made me think what art was about. Whenever I think of art, I always think about that particular painting and i'm not the most artistic person in the world but that particular painting became a representation of what art is to me - that art is really about anything.

I used to think that the only valid art was drawing with pencils and any other type of art was "wrong" (Yes I was that closed minded and I still am about some things but hopefully that'll change in the future) but after the field trip to the National Art Gallery it changed my view on art.

I'd love to purchase a print of this particular painting so I can frame it and hang it on my wall.

edit:

Thank you all for helping me out. After I got the answer, I immediately contacted the national art gallery and they said they only made prints by group of 7 and some other random ones and that they don't do print requests.

But i did find a print of voice of fire on this website