Tom Wesselmann - Embossed smoker - image-1

Lot 614 D

Tom Wesselmann - Embossed smoker

Auction 1014 - overview Cologne
24.05.2013, 11:00 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 9.760 € (incl. premium)

Pencil and thinned liquitex on embossed paper 28.5 x 25.5 cm, framed under glass. Signed, dated (79) and numbered "19/25". Edition Tom Wesselmann, New York. - Minor traces of age.

In 1968 Wesselmann created an embossing that was never published. In 1979 the artist decided to rework these embossings with thinned liquitex, thus giving them a unique character.

Certificate

The present work is registered in the archive of the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, under the number P791.19.