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Tom Wesselmann
Still Life with Four Roses and Pear
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
Lot Details
alkyd on cut-out steel
incised with the artist's signature and date "Wesselmann 93" on the reverse; titled, inscribed and dated "93-13 TOM WESSELMANN 1968/93 STILL LIFE WITH FOUR ROSES AND PEAR" by a studio assistant on the reverse
21 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (54.6 x 55.2 cm)
Conceived in 1968 and executed in 1993.
Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and will be included in their forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné.
Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and will be included in their forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné.
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Provenance
Tom Wesselmann
American | B. 1931 D. 2004As a former cartoonist and leading figure of the Pop Art movement, Tom Wesselmann spent many years of his life repurposing popular imagery to produce small to large-scale works that burst with color. Active at a time when artists were moving away from the realism of figurative painting and growing increasingly interested in abstraction, Wesselmann opted for an antithetical approach: He took elements of city life that were both sensual and practical and represented them in a way that mirrored Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol's own methodologies.Wesselmann considered pop culture objects as exclusively visual elements and incorporated them in his works as pure containers of bold color. This color palette became the foundation for his now-iconic suggestive figurative canvases, often depicting reclining nudes or women's lips balancing a cigarette.
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