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Tom Wesselmann
Maquette for Smoking Cigarette (Relief)
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
$13,970
Lot Details
Liquitex on rag board, in Plexiglas case
signed, inscribed and dated "Wesselmann 83 83-21" on the reverse; signed, titled and inscribed "83-21 MAQUETTE FOR SMOKING CIGARETTE RELIEF. WESSELMANN" on the reverse of the Plexiglas box
maquette 10 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (26.7 x 34.6 x 11.7 cm)
overall 17 1/4 x 24 x 6 1/8 in. (43.8 x 61 x 15.6 cm)
overall 17 1/4 x 24 x 6 1/8 in. (43.8 x 61 x 15.6 cm)
Executed in 1983.
Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
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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Full-Cataloguing
Provenance
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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