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Lot 184
  • 184

Tom Wesselmann

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Tom Wesselmann
  • Nude with Bouquet and Stocking #2
  • signed and dated 86 on the reverse
  • enamel on laser cut steel
  • 71 by 221cm.; 28 by 87in.

Provenance

Private Collection
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2007

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the stockings tend more towards lavender in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Upon very close inspection, there are minute specks of paint loss and minor light rub marks in a few places. There are a very small number of media accretions which are light and unobtrusive.
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Catalogue Note

“The laser-cut works were simply not possible when Wesselmann first considered the idea. The necessary technology was not yet available. It was more than a year before he was able to produce wall drawings that retained the feel of his own gesture. The resulting bold forms, exceptionally bright colours and, eventually, a full-blown metal assemblage technique became characteristic of the cut-outs (...). Nudes remained at the forefront for this vernacular, but the old familiar devices always crept back in too: paintings by Matisse, Leger (...); bouquets of tulips, jonquils or roses.”

Exhibition Catalogue, Roma, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Tom Wesselmann, 2005, p. 262.