Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Lot 127

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Drawing After Bedroom Painting #6

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 500,000–700,000

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Drawing After Bedroom Painting #6
incised with the artist's signature and date 'Wesselmann 69' (lower right)
Liquitex gesso and charcoal on linen
27 ½ x 45 in. (69.9 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed in 1969.

Studio Marconi, Milan
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 19 May 2000, lot 199
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note


See, I'd gotten over the years excited about scale, coming closer on the nude. I'd gotten a little tired of doing full length nudes because everything else in the painting had to be so small. It wasn't exciting enough to my eye. ...I wanted to deal with these big shapes; so I came in closer and closer on the nude...That was really when my work began to me, when I made that realization of what I'm excited by.
—Tom Wesselmann