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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

Starting price
$ 30 000
Auction dateClassic
10.03.2023 00:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 921066
Lot 185 | TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
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.





Provenance

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



Literature

D. Cohen, "The Joy of Coyness," The New York Sun, 12 July 2007, p. 22.



Exhibited

New York, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Tease, June-July 2007.



Post lot text

Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and will be included in their forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné.
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