Tom Wesselmann
(Cincinnati 1931–2004 New York)
Study for great American Nude #92, 1966, signed, dated Tom Wesselmann 66, pencil, coloured pencil on sketch paper, 12.5 x 20.7 cm, framed
The work is registered in the archive of the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York under the number D6640.
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen and Cologne (gallery label)
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
On this small-scale work on paper by Tom Wesselmann, a naked woman with loose dark hair, sun-tanned and with pale skin on her breasts and hips, presents herself lying at a slight diagonal.
The pink colour of the surface on which she lies corresponds with the colour of her nipples and her extended tongue.
Her eyes are not depicted, as is absolutely typical of his „Great American Nudes“ of the 1960s.
Wesselmann finds aesthetic stimuli for his trivial motifs in advertising as well as in film and television programmes. He reduces these to stereotypes with sexual symbolism in bright colours.
22.11.2016 - 18:00
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EUR 38,000.- to EUR 42,000.-
Tom Wesselmann
(Cincinnati 1931–2004 New York)
Study for great American Nude #92, 1966, signed, dated Tom Wesselmann 66, pencil, coloured pencil on sketch paper, 12.5 x 20.7 cm, framed
The work is registered in the archive of the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York under the number D6640.
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen and Cologne (gallery label)
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
On this small-scale work on paper by Tom Wesselmann, a naked woman with loose dark hair, sun-tanned and with pale skin on her breasts and hips, presents herself lying at a slight diagonal.
The pink colour of the surface on which she lies corresponds with the colour of her nipples and her extended tongue.
Her eyes are not depicted, as is absolutely typical of his „Great American Nudes“ of the 1960s.
Wesselmann finds aesthetic stimuli for his trivial motifs in advertising as well as in film and television programmes. He reduces these to stereotypes with sexual symbolism in bright colours.
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art Part I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 22.11.2016 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 12.11. - 22.11.2016 |