torpedo los torpedo los torpedo los pop art oil canvas painting sold new_york_times described work comic strip image sea warfare held record highest auction price work sale helped finance construction current home chicago like works title comes speech balloon painting work included second solo exhibition source image comic book significant alterations original image change focus perspective addition significant alteration narrative element work work plays background foreground relationship theme vision appears works background source image battle ghost ships comics fighting forces october content speech balloon different edition number according sources according according website torpedo los second solo exhibition leo gallery september october included drowning girl baseball manager car conversation marketing materials included artwork november torpedo los sold million million dollars dealer record work art sale described night achieved double total sales prices contemporary art auction date seller work widow chicago founder board member daughter lee corporation founder prior sale work robert mayer memorial loan program exhibited colleges museums torpedo los expected sell million time mayer key new description measuring inches torpedo los oil canvas painting face captain relative entire field makes prominent source retained source secondary figure presented replaced dialogue shorter cryptic command original source dialog related repeated ship cut entire speech balloon words moved captain nose cheek captain appear aggressive depicting mouth wide open opting leave eye looking open ship appear sophisticated variety changes actually readily apparent panels source story work theme relating vision uses mechanical viewing device present depiction technically aided vision depicted mechanical device case forces vision format works strong theme directly embodied allusion notes work proposes tension modes vision tension operates level gender work regarded exaggerated comic book sound effects common pop art style reception painting use background foreground shift ironic critical commands war imagery depicts american war themes depicts german submarine captain battle station manner depiction commander face pressed reflects industrial art 1920s 1930s ironic aspect temporal displacement referring world war later period cold war balloon content especially large font characters complemented traditional visual content painting alterations heightened sense urgency image offset menace forming detached work november review stated broad powerful paintings exhibition gallery
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