Live Auction 15975Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 734

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Big Study For Tulip & Smoking Cigarette (Close-Up)

Closed16 November 2018

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Big Study For Tulip & Smoking Cigarette (Close-Up)
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 81' (lower right)
Liquitex and graphite on rag board
40 ¼ x 60 in. (102.2 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 1981.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection

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].” – Tom Wesselmann