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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 281

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Smoker Study

Fermé16 November 2016

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USD 229,500

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Smoker Study
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 72' (on the overlap); stamped with the artist's signature 'WESSELMANN' (on the overlap)
oil and graphite on canvas
10 ½ x 11 in. (26.7 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1972.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998

Note du spécialiste

"These works seem heraldic, the lips quasi-Baroque cartouches and the cigarette and crossed fingers, emblematic swords. They condense the eroticism of Wesselmann's Great American Nudes into succinct images of formal grandeur-only the Smokers are more symbolic, more fantastic, not plainly erotic like the Nudes but secretly obscene" (D. Kuspit, "Tom Wesselmann at Janis," Art in America, September/October 1974, p. 110).