Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Tom Wesselmann
Drawing from Smoker #9
Auction Closed
November 19, 09:47 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tom Wesselmann
1931 - 2004
Drawing from Smoker #9
inscribed with the artist's name, title and date (on the stretcher); inscribed Claire Wesselmann, Executor The Estate of Tom Wesselmann (on the stretcher)
charcoal and gesso on shaped canvas
83 by 88½ in.
210 by 225 cm.
Executed in 1974.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 2007
Slim Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, New York, 1980, p. 200, illustrated
Sam Hunter, Tom Wesselmann, Rizzoli, New York, 1994, no. 67, p. 78, illustrated
Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus, ongoing, illustrated
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Paintings by Wesselmann at Janis, 1974, cat. no. 8
Brooklyn Museum, American Drawing in Black & White: 1970-1980, 1980-81
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Sapporo, Museum of Contemporary Art; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Kintetsu Museum of Art, Tom Wesselmann: A Retrospective Survey 1959-1992, 1993 - 1994, cat. no. 55, n.p., illustrated in color
Tübingen, Institut für Kulturaustausch; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Berlin, Altes Museum; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz; Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Barcelona, Palais de la Virreina; Lisbon, Culturgest; Nice, Musée de l'Art Moderne, Tom Wesselmann, Retrospective 1959-1993, 1994 - 1996, no. 84, illustrated
MACRO–Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Tom Wesselmann, 2005, pp. 128-129, illustrated in color