Live Auction 18549Post-War to Present
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 27

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Monica and Matisse Interior with Phonograph (3-D)

Closed5 March 2020

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USD 200,000

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Monica and Matisse Interior with Phonograph (3-D)
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 88/93' (on the reverse)
oil on cut-out aluminum
71 x 47 x 4 in. (180.3 x 119.4 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 1988/1993. This work is unique.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection, Palm Beach, 1993
By descent from the above to the present owner

Specialist note


“My original idea, that began the cut-outs, was to preserve the process and immediacy of my drawings from life, complete with the false lines and errors, and realize them in steel. It was as though the lines had been miraculously drawn in steel.”
Tom Wesselmann