"As I Opened Fire" Offset lithograph (triptych) printed in 4 colors (red, yellow, blue, black) on 3 sheets of wove paper. Superb impressions from the edition of approx. 3000 published by the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, after the acrylic on canvas of the same title which hangs in their collection; printed by Drukkerij Luii & Co., Amsterdam. The museum copyright printed on each panel, lower right. Make an offer! Framed triptych of 3 offset lithographs on paper Not signed Framed Size: 33" x 29" (each) Image Size: 28-3/4" x 20-1/2" (each) Circa 1966 Condition: there are a few small brown spots on the paper (see photos above). The frames have minor wear. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity Certificate of Authenticity is included Gallery Retail : $2,900.00 (framed) BIO: One of the most influential and innovative American artists of the post-war period, Roy Lichtenstein ushered in the prominence of Pop Art through his high-impact representations of consumer imagery, common entertainment, and the accoutrements of contemporary life rendered in the Ben-Day dots of contemporary comic strips. Central to Lichtenstein’s practice was parody, which enabled the artist to engage with often-disparaged commercial source imagery from an ironic distance as he considered the nature of the banal and probed the boundaries of what fine art could be. While Lichtenstein’s early Pop work cemented his status as one of the main figures of one of the most iconic and original movements of postmodernism, he continued to develop his practice over the course of the following decades until his death in 1997. Retaining his characteristic comic style and ironic distance, Lichtenstein engaged new and disparate influences from Abstract Expressionism to Chinese landscape painting to evolve the subject of his own work and consider the contradictions of representation, style, and substance. Lichtenstein is a central figure in the 30th century art historical canon and accordingly his work is represented in the collections of major museums worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.