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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2022 | As I opened fire | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | ||||
Prints & Multiples
61 x 50 cm (24.02 x 19.69 in)
Serigraphs without print run number, triptych
Unsigned; With copyright stamp on front and back
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
(Manhattan, New York, 1923 - 1997)
As I opened fire, 1966
Unsigned
Serigraphs without print run number, triptych. Print run of 3000
With copyright stamp on front and back.
Made in 1966 by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam from a painting by Roy Lichtenstein made in 1964.
Pieces: 3
In 1964, Roy Lichtenstein made his painting "As I opened fire" which was inspired by Jerry Grandenetti"s panels in the strip "Wingmate of Doom", in All American Men of War, no. 90 from the year 1962 of the comic company DC Comics.
In most of this artist"s work we can appreciate a verbal continuity in terms of internal dialogues and time in actions that follow others. The painting ties together elements of war with depictions of a few seconds during an airplane battle, the painting narratively being formed from three instants, using three panels to enhance its formal coherence. The impersonal quality of his pieces is a constant pursuit of Lichtenstein, achieving vast emotional content but with a personal detachment.
Zooms into the scene and onomatopoeia provide a cinematic and mechanized flow of artistic expression.
Lichtenstein commented on his war images: "A minor purpose of my war paintings is to put military aggressiveness in an absurd light. My personal view is that much of our foreign policy has been incredibly frightening, but this is not what my work is about and I do not want to capitalize on this popular position. My work is more about our American definition of images and visual communication." It was based on the comic book "All American Men of War." The three images in As I Opened Fire work together to tell a story. This work refers to a revolution in art in the 1960s. Formally, Lichtenstein appropriated images from popular culture. He inserted them into a fine art context by enlarging them, slightly modifying them and painting them on canvas. Lichtenstein emphasized the primary colors, black outlines and enlarged "Benday dots" frequently seen in mechanical reproductions. This work, a typical example of Pop Art, can be understood as a reaction against abstraction expressionism.
Source consulted: Official website of the Stedelijk Museum www.stedelijk.nl
61 cm x 50 cm each / 64 x 159 cm total dimensions
