Catalogue entry

RLCR 827 (LC 121; LC 122; LC 123; RL 0074)

As I Opened Fire...

1964

Title Source

RL Studio Card

Alternate title and source: Three Panel – As I Open Fire (RL Register)

Media

Acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas (three panels)

Dimensions

Each panel: 68 1/8 x 55 7/8 in. (173 x 142 cm) (approx.)

Inscriptions

Signed and dated each panel verso, upper left: rf Lichtenstein / '64

By artist left panel verso, upper left: Panel #1; middle panel verso, upper left: Panel #2; right panel verso, upper left: Panel #3. Left panel stretcher: # 121; middle panel stretcher: # 122; right panel stretcher: # 123

Studio

36 West 26th Street, New York

Keyword

Cartoons

Related Works

Provenance

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February 1965. A 23603(1-3) (via Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City; via Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris)

Exhibitions

1964a New York Castelli

Leo Castelli Gallery (4 East 77th Street), New York, Group Exhibition (John Chamberlain, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella), February 8–March 12, 1964.

1964 New York Janis

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, A Selection of 20th Century Art of 3 Generations, November 24–December 26, 1964 (panel 1) (Janis 1964, no. 34 b/w ill. [panel 1]).

1965 Washington, D.C, Corcoran

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Twenty-Ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, February 26–April 18, 1965 (Williams, H. 1965).

1966 Warsaw Zachęta

Zachęta Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych (CBWA), Warsaw, Poland, Współczesne tendencje: malarstwo ze zbiorów Stedelijk Museum w Amsterdamie i Stedelijk van Abbemuseum w Eindhoven, April 5–24, 1966 (Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych 1966, no. 50 b/w ill.).

1966 Heerlen Raadhuis

Raadhuis van Heerlen, Heerlan, the Netherlands, Het Stedelijk in Heerlen: Nieuwe stromingen, November 5–December 12, 1966 (Stadsgalerij, Heerlen 1966).

1967 Amsterdam Stedelijk

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Roy Lichtenstein, November 4–December 17, 1967 (Stedelijk Museum 1967, no. 25 color ill. [fold out]). Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, January 6–February 4, 1968 (Tate 1968b, no. 24 n.p. facing p. 39 b/w ill.); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, February 23–March 31, 1968 (Kunsthalle Bern 1968, no. 22 color ill. [double spread]); (Tate 1968a, no. 26 p. 37 b/w ill.); Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, April 13–May 19, 1968 (Kestner-Gesellschaft 1968, color ill. [fold out]).

1969 New York Guggenheim

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Roy Lichtenstein, September 19–November 9, 1969 (only New York) (Waldman 1969, no. 28 pp. 46–47 color ill. [double spread]). Traveled to: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., December 18, 1969–January 16, 1970; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill., February 7–March 22, 1970; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., April 10–May 17, 1970; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, July 9–August 30, 1970.

1971 Helsinki Ateneum

Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Expo Stedelijk, April 1–May 9, 1971 (Ateneumin Taidemuseo 1971, no. 74 b/w ill.).

1971b Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Europalia: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam '60–'70, October 20–November 22, 1971 (BOZAR and Europalia 71 1971a, p. 22 b/w ill.); (BOZAR and Europalia 71 1971b, p. 22 b/w ill.).

1974 New York Whitney

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Pop Art, April 6–June 16, 1974 (Alloway 1974, no. 67 n.p. following p. 75 b/w ill. [double spread]).

1990 New York MoMA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, October 7, 1990–January 15, 1991 (Varnedoe and Gopnik 1990a, no. 86 p. 209 color ill. [fold out]); (Varnedoe and Gopnik 1990b). Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., February 23–May 12, 1991; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif., June 21–September 15, 1991.

1993 New York Guggenheim

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, October 7, 1993–January 16, 1994 (only New York, Munich until December 1994) (Waldman 1993b, no. 91 n.p. color ill. [double spread]). Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif., January 26–April 3, 1994; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, May 26–September 5, 1994; Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 13, 1994–January 9, 1995 (included early works) (Waldman 1994, no. 91 n.p. color ill. [double spread]); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, February 8–April 30, 1995 (included early works) (Waldman 1994, no. 91 n.p. color ill. [double spread]); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, June 2–September 3, 1995 (included early works) (Waldman 1994, no. 91 n.p. color ill. [double spread]); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 21, 1995–January 7, 1996 (abridged version) (Waldman 1994, no. 91 n.p. color ill. [double spread]).

1994 Turin Castello di Rivoli

Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, L'Orizzonte: da Chagall a Picasso, da Pollock a Cragg, Capolavori dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam, December 18, 1994–April 23, 1995 (Gianelli and Fuchs, R. 1994, p. 91 color ill.).

1995 Rotterdam Kunsthal

Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Pop Art, April 8–October 29, 1995 (installed June 1995) (Straus 1995, p. 93 color ill, front cover color ill. [foldout]).

1997 Tochigi Utsuomiya

Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan, Art in the 20th Century: From Cézanne and Van Gogh to the Present, Collection from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 23–May 18, 1997 (Rintaro 1997, no. 44 pp. 132–133 color ill. [double spread]). Traveled to: Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, May 28–July 12, 1997; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan, July 22–August 17, 1997; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, September 12–November 3, 1997; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, November 11, 1997–December 21, 1998.

1999b Rome Chiostro del Bramante

Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Roy Lichtenstein, Riflessi/Reflections, December 20, 1999–April 2, 2000 (only Wolfsburg; Rome?) (Waldman 1999). Traveled to: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, April 20–June 25, 2000; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, September 16, 2000–January 21, 2001 (as Roy Lichtenstein: Spiegelbilder, 1963–1997) (Waldman 2000a, n.p. color ill. [fold out]).

2001 Paris Pompidou

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, Les années Pop, 1956–1968, March 15–June 18, 2001 (Francis, M. 2001, no. 64.99 color ill. [double spread]).

2003 Vienna Kunstforum

Kunstforum, Vienna, Roy Lichtenstein, December 11, 2003–March 7, 2004 (Kunstforum Wien 2003, no. 15 p. 52–53 color ill. [double spread]).

2012 Chicago Art Institute

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, May 16–September 3, 2012 (not Paris) (Rondeau and Wagstaff, Sheena 2012, no. 40 n.p. color ill. [double spread]). Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2012–January 13, 2013; Tate Modern, London, February 21–May 27, 2013 (as Lichtenstein: A Retrospective) (Dunne 2012, no. 34 pp. 44–45 color ill. [double spread]); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, July 3–November 4, 2013 (as Roy Lichtenstein, revised and reorganized) (Dunne 2013, no. 34 pp. 44–45 color ill. [double spread]); (Pompidou 2013); (Morineau 2013a, n.p. facing p. 41 color ill.).

Literature

Polk 1964

Polk, Peggy. "Ex-Ohioan a Leader in Pop Art." Cleveland Press, April 3, 1964, p. 3 b/w ill. (as Fighter Plane Triptych; with artist, in progress).

Lippard 1966c

Lippard, Lucy R. Pop Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1966, no. 68 n.p. following p. 87 color ill. (panel 3).

Ammann 1968

Ammann, Jean-Christophe. "Roy Lichtenstein." Werk 55, no. 4 (April 1968), no. 3 p. 278 b/w ill.

Sorin 1968

Sorin, Raphaël. "Le classicisme du hot dog." La quinzaine littéraire, no. 42 (January 1968), p. 16 b/w ill. (panel 3).

Kostelanetz 1970

Kostelanetz, Richard. "The State of the Art of Painting." North American Review 255, no. 4 (Winter 1970), p. 54 ill. (panel 1).

Crespo 1970a

Crespo, Ángel. Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop. Mayagüez: Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1970. Exhibition catalogue (1970 Mayagüez Universidad de Puerto Rico), no. 9 n.p. b/w ill. (panel 3), [not exhibited].

Crespo 1970b

Crespo, Ángel. "Roy Lichtenstein y el arte pop." Revista de arte/The Art Review (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), no. 5 (June 1970), no. 9 p. 18 b/w ill. (panel 3).

Lichtenstein, R. 1971

Lichtenstein, Roy. [no title]. Edited by Christian Bourgois. Kitsch (Paris: Marie Concorde Editeur), no. 2 (February 1971), p. 46 b/w ill. (panel 3), p. 47 b/w ill. (panels 1 and 2).

Waldman 1971b

Waldman, Diane. Roy Lichtenstein. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971, no. 77 n.p. color ill. (fold out).

Wilson, S. 1978

Wilson, Simon. Pop. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, no. 8 n.p. color ill. (panel 3).

Cowart 1981b

Cowart, Jack. Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the St. Louis Art Museum, 1981. Exhibition catalogue (1981 St. Louis Art Museum), pp. 62–63 b/w ill. (double spread), [not exhibited].

Hughes, R. 1981b

Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981, no. 233 p. 352 color ill.

Calamandrei 1982

Lichtenstein, Roy, and Mauro Calamandrei. "Pop art, addio." L'espresso (Rome) 28, no. 21 (May 30, 1982), p. 142 b/w ill. (panel 3).

Cowart 1982a

Cowart, Jack. Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980. Translated from the English by Nicolas Hepp. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1982. Exhibition catalogue (1981 St. Louis Art Museum), no. 53 pp. 62–63 b/w ill. (double spread), [not exhibited].

Cowart 1982b

Cowart, Jack. Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980. Translated from the English by Stefania Coppi. Florence: Electa, 1982. Exhibition catalogue (1981 St. Louis Art Museum), p. 42 b/w ill. [not exhibited].

Cowart 1983

Cowart, Jack. Roy Lichtenstein 1970–1980. Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue (1981 St. Louis Art Museum), pp. 58–59 b/w ill. (double spread), [not exhibited].

Alloway 1983b

Alloway, Lawrence. Roy Lichtenstein. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983, no. 29 p. 32 color ill.

Abbott 1986

Abbott, L. L. "Comic Art: Characteristics and Potentialities of a Narrative Medium." Journal of Popular Culture 19, no. 4 (Spring 1986), no. 2 p. 158 b/w ill.

Adler, E. 1986

Adler, Edward Jerome. "American Painting and the Vietnam War." PhD diss., School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions, New York University, New York, 1986, no. 102 p. 488 b/w ill.

Hendrickson 1988

Hendrickson, Janis. Roy Lichtenstein. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1988, pp. 28–29 color ill. (double spread).

Richard 1988

Richard, Paul. "The Teeming Images of Roy Lichtenstein: At the Corcoran, a Delightful Retrospective." Washington Post, September 27, 1988, p. C1 b/w ill. (panel 2, with artist).

Steiner 1988

Steiner, Wendy. "Divide and Narrate: Seurat, Warhol, and Lichtenstein." In Pictures of Romance: Form against Context in Painting and Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, no. 42 p. 165 b/w ill.

Osterwold 1989a

Osterwold, Tilman. Pop Art. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1989, n.p. preceding p. 190 color ill. (double spread).

Dietrich 1990

Lichtenstein, Roy, and Nicolas Dietrich. "Lichtenstein." A, Les aventures de l'art (Paris), no. 2 (December 1990), pp. 82–83 color ill. (panel 3; double spread).

Kodansha 1992

Kodansha Ltd. Contemporary Great Masters: Roy Lichtenstein. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd., 1992, no. 6 n.p. color ill. (double spread).

Lubbock 1993

Lubbock, Tom. "Dotting the Eyes." Modern Painters 6, no. 4 (Winter 1993), p. 45 color ill.

Lynton 1994

Lynton, Norbert. L'Art Moderne. Translated from the English by Anne Rochette and Christophe Marchand-Kiss. Paris: Flammarion, 1994, fig. 255 p. 293 b/w ill.

Whiting 1997

Whiting, Cécile. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997, no. 39 pp. 112–113 b/w ill. (double spread).

Serafini 2000

Serafini, Giuliano. Art e Dossier. Special issue, Lichtenstein (Milan), no. 152 (January 2000), p. 31 color ill.

Hindry 2001

Hindry, Ann. "Roy Lichtenstein." In Les années pop, edited by Beaux-Arts magazine, Paris. Paris: Beaux Arts Éditions, 2001, p. 30 color ill.

Schenk 2004

Schenk, Ruud, ed. US in NL: Amerikaanse kunst in Nederlandse musea, 1945–2002. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 2004, n.p. facing p. 137 color ill.

Goldberg, I. 2007

Goldberg, Itzhak. "Roy Lichtenstein: La peinture en bulles." Beaux arts magazine (Boulogne), no. 277 (July 2007), p. 64 color ill.

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