Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Tom Wesselmann

Great American Nude #75

Auction Closed

September 27, 03:01 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 USD

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Tom Wesselmann

1931 - 2004


Great American Nude #75

paint on illuminated molded plastic

48 by 54 by 7 in.

121.9 by 137.2 by 17.8 cm.

Executed in 1965, this work is 1 of 6 unique variants.


This work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

Please note the correct medium for this work is paint on illuminated molded plastic

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in February 1966)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Anon., "An art book publisher as collector," Women's Wear Daily, 12 August 1975, p. 24, illustrated

Sandra Furlotti Reberschak, "I Grandi Colezionisti: A Katonah e a New York, le case e l'ufficio di Harry Abrams: I mille e uno quadri di un grande editore d'arte," Bolaffi Arte, n. 67, anno VIII, February - March 1977, p. 43, illustrated in color

Slim Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, Abbeville Press, Inc., New York 1980, p. 47, illustrated

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Pop & Op, December 1965

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Electricity, May 1966 (another variant exhibited)

Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes; Salamanca, DA2 Domus Atrium 2000; A Coruña, Kiosco Alfonso; New York, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism], April 2004 - January 2005, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Nude #75)

Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Tom Wesselmann, June - September 2005, p. 85, illustrated in color

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for The New, December 2013 - April 2014 (another variant exhibited), pp. 60, 62 (text reference to Great American Nude #75 variants)