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Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]



Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]

  Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]   Lot #794: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] - Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych]


Pre-auction estimates:  $6000/8000
 
Sale price: $4,980.00

   

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Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "As I Opened Fire [lifetime impressions] [triptych - set of three panels, last panel signed]".
Medium: Original color offset lithograph [3 prints - triptych].
Date: Composed 1966.
Dimensions: Overall size: 25 3/16 x 20 3/4 in. (640 x 527 mm). Image size: 24 x 19 5/8 in. (610 x 498 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right of the third panel. Probably from the edition of 3,150 printed in 1983. Off-white, almost light cream-colored, wove paper. Full margins. Fine impressions. Very fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett App.5; Doering/Von der Osten 14. Provenance: Private collector, New York City (Manhattan). Comment(s): A lifetime impression signed by the artist. Scarce when signed. At auction this poster set has sold as high as $19,200 (Swann Galleries, NYC, 3/6/2008, lot #712). There have been at least eight sales of this set in the past ten years that have each sold for more than $10,000. The text on the reverse lower left of the first print reads "ROY LICHTENSTEIN 1923/ as i opened fire/ 1964 - acryl on canvas/ triptych - panel 1 - 173 x 142 1/2 cm. / coll. stedelijk museum amsterdam" and l.r. "edition and colour-correction/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam/© R. Lichtenstein 1964 c/o Beeldrecht Amsterdam/printed in the netherlands." The two subsequent prints have the same text but printed "...panel 2..." and "...panel 3..." respectively. The recto text on each of the three prints lower right reads "© S.M.A." Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [25199-5-4000]
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