Tom Wesselmann - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, November 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist
    Collection of Dave Hickey, United States

  • 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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Study for Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life

2003
ink and colored pencil on rag tracing paper
3 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (7.9 x 10.5 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated "Tom Wesselmann, Study for Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2003" on the reverse.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $23,750

Contemporary Art Day Sale

16 November 2012
New York