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{{Short description|Painting by Roy Lichtenstein}}
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==Background==
[[File:Our Fighting Forces number 71.jpg|thumb|left|upright|The source of ''Torpedo...Los!'' is "Battle of the Ghost Ships?" (story by [[Bob Haney]], art by [[Jack Abel]]) in DC Comics' ''Our Fighting Forces'' (October 1962).]]
The source of the image is [[Jack Abel]]'s art in the [[Bob Haney]]-written story "Battle of the Ghost Ships?", in [[DC Comics]]' ''Our Fighting Forces'' #71 (October 1962), although the content of the speech balloon is different
On November 7, 1989, ''Torpedo...Los!'' sold at [[Christie's]] for $5.5 million (US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|5.5|1989|r=1}}}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}) to Zurich dealer Thomas Ammann, which was a record for a [[work of art]] by Lichtenstein.<ref name=AdKWSARa$M>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/09/arts/a-de-kooning-work-sets-a-record-at-20.7-million.html|title=A de Kooning Work Sets A Record at $20.7 Million|access-date=May 9, 2012|date=November 9, 1989|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Reif, Rita}}</ref> The sale was described as the "highpoint" of a night in which Christie's achieved more than double the total sales prices of any other [[contemporary art]] auction up to that date.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/arts/art-prices-are-still-astonishing-but-fever-seems-to-be-cooling.html|title=Art Prices Are Still Astonishing, But Fever Seems to Be Cooling|access-date=May 9, 2012|date=December 6, 1989|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Reif, Rita}}</ref> The seller of the work was Beatrice C. Mayer, the widow of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago founder and board member Robert B. Mayer as well as daughter of [[Sara Lee Corporation]] founder [[Nathan Cummings]].<ref name=A>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/03/arts/auctions.html|title=Auctions|access-date=May 9, 2012|date=November 3, 1989|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Reif, Rita}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:CSTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB37331AD0EB121&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Donors cite need for new art museum|access-date=August 23, 2009|date=January 29, 1991|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|author=Gillespie, Mary}}</ref> Prior to the sale the work was part of the Robert B. Mayer Memorial Loan Program and was exhibited at colleges and museums.<ref name=A/> ''Torpedo...Los!'' was expected to sell for $3 to 4 million at the time.<ref name=A/> In 1991, Mayer became one of the key benefactors of the new Museum of Contemporary Art Building.<ref name=Tesoanam>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:CSTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB37331A6F45D82&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Trustees endow success of a new art museum|access-date=August 23, 2009|date=January 29, 1991|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|author=Gillespie, Mary}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120502233703/http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/torpedolos.htm Lichtenstein Foundation website]
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