Tom Wesselmann - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 17, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Max Lang Gallery, New York
    Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

  • 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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Embossed Nude #3 (Legs Spread)

1968-73
Liquitex in colors, pencil and embossing on paper
15 x 18 1/4 in. (38.1 x 46.4 cm)
Signed and dated "Wesselmann Proof 1968-1973" lower right. This work is from a series of 15 numbered works and 2 proofs, hand-painted on hand-embossed paper by the artist, using color variations so that no two were the same.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $37,500

Contact Specialist
Amanda Stoffel
Head of Sale
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 17 May 2013 10am