The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden
Tom Wesselmann
Great American Nude No. 43
Auction Closed
September 28, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden
Tom Wesselmann
1931 - 2004
Great American Nude No. 43
signed and dated '63 (on the reverse)
oil, enamel, acrylic, fabric, paper and cardboard collage with television set on panel
48 by 47 ¾ by 8 in.
121.9 by 121.3 by 20.3 cm.
Executed in 1963.
Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and will be included in their forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné.
Green Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1963)
Christie's, New York, 7 November 1989, lot 12
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 45
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, Etc., February - March 1965, no. 157 (checklist)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, 1968, no. 78 (checklist)
University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Contemporary Art from the Robert B. Mayer Collection, 1976
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, America as Art, 1976, no. 340, p. 301, illustrated
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, 1984
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nouveau Realism and Pop Art, 1985, n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Beyond Pop: Tom Wesselmann, 2012, p. 26 (text)
Exh. Cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, Art about Art, 1978, pp. 152-153, illustrated
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