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Tom Wesselmann
Sunset Nude with Tulips (W.P.I. P041)
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- $5,000 - 7,000
$8,385
Lot Details
Mixografía® print in colors, on handmade paper, with full margins.
2004-06
I. 26 x 30 1/4 in. (66 x 76.8 cm)
S. 37 3/8 x 41 3/4 in. (94.9 x 106 cm)
S. 37 3/8 x 41 3/4 in. (94.9 x 106 cm)
Signed with embossed signature and numbered 35/75 in pencil (there were also 8 artist's proofs), additionally signed and dated in pencil on the reverse by Claire Wesselmann (the artist's wife and Executor of the Estate), published by Mixografía, Los Angeles, printed in the United States, framed.
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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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