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Description
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Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dennis Florio, New York
Sotheby's, New York, February 25, 1993, lot 284
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Artist Biography
Tom Wesselmann
American • 1931 - 2004
As 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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Tom Wesselmann

Study for Nude Aquatint

signed "wesselmann" lower left; inscribed "D7676" lower center; dated "76-80" lower right
pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper
4 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (12.4 x 15.6 cm)
Executed in 1976–1980.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000

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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 25 September 2024