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Tom Wesselmann
Bedroom Blonde
- Estimate
- £4,000 - 6,000
£8,125
Lot Details
Transfer-printed glazed porcelain plaque in colours, accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity,
1987
35.6 x 44.5 x 3.5 cm (14 x 17 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)
signed, titled and numbered 58/100 on an insert on the reverse (there were also an unknown number of artist's proofs, identified by number 0/100), published and fabricated by Rosenthal Limiterite Kunstreiben, Berlin (with their mark), in excellent condition, contained in the original wooden box.
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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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