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'''''Torpedo...Los!''''' (sometimes '''''Torpedo...LOS!''''') is a 1963 [[pop art]] oil on canvas painting by [[Roy Lichtenstein]]. When it was last sold in 1989, ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the work as "a comic-strip image of sea warfare".<ref name=AdKWSARa$M/> It formerly held the record for the [[Roy_Lichtenstein#Art_market|highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work]]. Its 1989 sale helped finance the construction of the current home of the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]] in 1991.
Like many of Lichtenstein's works its title comes from the [[speech balloon]] in the painting. The work was included in Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition. The source of the image is a [[comic book]] from [[DC Comics]]. Lichtenstein has made significant alterations to the original image to change the focus and perspective in addition to significant alteration of the narrative element of the work. The work plays on the background-foreground relationship and the theme of vision that appears in many of Lichtenstein's works.
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