Tom Wesselmann - New Now New York Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Estate of the Artist
    Acquired from the above by the present owner (gifted by the above)

  • 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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Study for Sunset Nude (VAR. #2)

signed "Wesselmann" lower center; numbered and inscribed "D0210 S" on the reverse
pen and colored pencil on 100% rag tracing paper
image 2 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (6.4 x 7.3 cm)
sheet 6 x 6 1/8 in. (15.2 x 15.6 cm)

Executed in 2002.

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

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $16,510

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now Sale
T +1 212 940 1207
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New York Auction 12 March 2024