Tom Wesselmann - Artsy x Phillips: Wrapped/Unwrapped New York Wednesday, November 28, 2018 | Phillips

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  • 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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Thames Scene with Power Station

signed and numbered "Wesselmann PP 3/3" lower right
screenprint on Museum Board
image 44 3/8 x 89 7/8 in. (112.7 x 228.3 cm.)
sheet 57 x 99 1/2 in. (144.8 x 252.7 cm.)

Executed in 1990, this work is printer's proof 3 from an edition of 60 plus 3 printer's proofs and 12 artist's proofs, published by International Images, Putney, Vermont.

Estimate
$3,500 - 4,500 

Sold for $20,000

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Artsy x Phillips: Wrapped/Unwrapped

Online Auction 28 November - 12 December 2018