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Tom Wesselmann
Monica Sitting, Arm on Knee (Gray)
- Estimate
- £60,000 - 80,000
£88,900
Lot Details
enamel on laser cut steel
signed, titled and dated 'N6G TOM WESSELMANN 1985/90 MONICA SITTING, ARM ON KNEE (GRAY) Wesselmann 90 Wesselmann 90' on the reverse
137.3 x 89.9 cm (54 x 35 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1985-1990.
This work is included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, under registration number N6G.
This work is included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, under registration number N6G.
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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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