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Tom Wesselmann (1913-2004)
Lot 604 Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Tom Wesselmann (1913-2004)

Study for Nude Aquatint

Closed18 May 2017

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USD 511,500

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Tom Wesselmann (1913-2004)
Study for Nude Aquatint
signed twice, titled and dated twice 'STUDY FOR NUDE AQUATINT WESSELMANN 1980 Wesselmann 80' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
28 x 31 in. (71.1 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1980.

Jack Klein, New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1980
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1983, lot 523
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“I always had a finished study, a deliberate subject choice. I felt a strong obligation, in a sense, to be the next in line, or to take up the next position in the whole progression…[from] Matisse [to the] present. I liked the evolution of representational painting, just as it was going. I wanted to be a next step in that [continuum]”

T. Wesselmann quoted in C. Glenn, Tom Wesselmann: The Intimate Images, University Art Museum, Long Beach, 2002, p. 4.