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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Little Great American Nude #29

Fermé16 November 2017

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Little Great American Nude #29
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 65' (on the overlap); signed again, titled and dated again 'Wesselmann 65 LITTLE GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #29' (on the stretcher)
acrylic and graphite on canvas
9 1/8 x 8 in. (23.1 x 20.5 cm.)
Painted in 1965.

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1999, lot 145
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Note du spécialiste

“The figures dealt primarily with their presence. Almost all faces were left off because the nudes were not intended to be portraits in any sense. Personality would interfere with the bluntness of the fact of the nude. When body features were included, they were those important to erotic implication, like lips and nipples. There was no modeling, no hint at dimension. Simply drawn lines were virtually a collage element—the addition of drawing to the painting."
Slim Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, New York 1980, p. 24.