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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 252

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Smoker Study / for Smoker #24

Fermé7 October 2017

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GBP 56,250

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Smoker Study / for Smoker #24
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 76' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
10 ½ x 10 5/8in. (26.8 x 27cm.)
Painted in 1976

Galerie Benden + Klimczak, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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.' DONALD KUSPIT