Live Auction 21759Post-War to Present
TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
Lot 185

TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

Drawing for Embossed Nude

Closed10 March 2023

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USD 30,000–50,000

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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
Drawing for Embossed Nude
signed with the artist's initial, inscribed and dated 'W. ca 68 smaller stars shorter flowers' (lower right)
graphite on paper
8 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (22.2 x 24.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1968.

Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 13 April 2010, lot 46
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2015, lot 232
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"[Wesselmann's] restrained yet loving hatchwork has a kind of breath-held expectation ironed out of the cool, resolved work for which this would have been preparatory."
—D. Cohen, "The Joy of Coyness," The New York Sun, 12 July 2007, p. 22.