Live Auction 10421First Open/LDN
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 47

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Belt Still Life

Closed23 September 2015

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GBP 22,500

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Belt Still Life
signed and numbered '3/25 Wesselmann' (on a label affixed under the base)
Rosenthal porcelain in Perspex box
overall: 11 7/8 x 18 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (30 x 46 x 20cm.)
Executed in 1982, this work is number three from an edition of twenty-five

Private Collection, Ravensburg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I was working with my belt as an object for a painting, a coiled up belt. It was an intriguing element in a still life and I thought, ‘Gee, that would make an interesting sculpture.’ So it got started. For me the hard part about sculpture is what objects to do…For example, I want to do a sculpture of a shoe. I can’t just do a big shoe - it’s just a big shoe; that’s all it is. So there are only a very few things that I can work with that can be abstract enough so the abstract aspect of it can dominate its form’ (T. Wesselman, quoted in I.Sandler, ‘Oral history interview with Tom Wesselmann’, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, January-February 1984, reproduced at https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ interviews/oral-history-interview-tom-wesselmann-12439).