Tom Wesselmann - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 28, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, 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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300

Nude with Bouquet and Blue Stockings

1990
screenprint on heavy paper
114 x 203 cm (44 7/8 x 79 7/8 in)
Signed and numbered 'Wesselmann 14/100' lower right. This work is from an edition of 100 plus 12 Hors Commerce proofs.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £12,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

29 June 2012
London