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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
Lot 121

TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

Smoker Study #24

Closed1 October 2021

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USD 237,500

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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
Smoker Study #24
signed, titled and dated 'Smoker Study #24 Wesselmann 67' (lower edge)
oil and graphite on canvas
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted in 1967.

Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis
Private collection, Minneapolis, circa 1970s
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

...the smoker's eroticism...is an accidental by-product because I didn't do them to be erotic. I did them because I was intrigued with smoke and coming in close on the mouth. I didn't start the mouth paintings to be erotic. I started them to be just a mouth, that's all.
—Tom Wesselmann