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Tom Wesselmann

Great American Nude #18

Estimate
$600,000 - 800,000
$516,000
Lot Details
oil, wax crayons and printed paper collage on two joined panels
signed and dated "Wesselmann 61" lower left; signed, titled and dated "TOM WESSELMANN 1961 GAN #18" on the reverse
48 x 47 3/4 in. (121.9 x 121.3 cm)
Executed in 1961, in the United States.

Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

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Tom Wesselmann

American | B. 1931 D. 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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