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A set of three offset lithographs by Roy Lichtenstein entitled collectively as, "As I Opened Fire." The first lithograph in typical comic book pop art style says, "As I opened fire. I knew why Tex hadn't buzzed me--If He Had-- BRAT!." The second, "The enemy would have been warned..." and the third, "that my ship was below them..." The set of lithographs are printed on white wove paper and were printed in 1990; the original printing of these lithographs was in 1966. Issued unsigned. Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and printed by Drukkerij Luli & Co., Amsterdam.

Born in New York City in 1923, Lichtenstein studied briefly at the Art Students League then enrolled at Ohio State University. After serving in the army from 1943 to 1946, he returned to Ohio State to get a master's degree and to teach. Roy Lichtenstein is a pop art painter whose works, in a style derived from comic strips, portray the trivialization of culture endemic in contemporary American life. Using bright, strident colors and techniques borrowed from the printing industry, he ironically incorporates mass-produced emotions and objects into highly sophisticated references to art history. Primary colors--red, yellow and blue, heavily outlined in black--became his favorites. Occasionally he used green. Instead of shades of color, he used the benday dot, a method by which an image is created and its density of tone modulated in printing. Sometimes he selected a comic-strip scene, recomposed it, projected it onto his canvas and stenciled in the dots. "I want my painting to look as if it had been programmed," Lichtenstein explained.