Tom Wesselmann - Paint Study for Great American Nude #82 - image-1

Lot 510 D

Tom Wesselmann - Paint Study for Great American Nude #82

Auction 1122 - overview Cologne
01.12.2018, 14:00 - Contemporary Art I
Estimate: 18.000 € - 22.000 €
Result: 39.680 € (incl. premium)

Tom Wesselmann

Paint Study for Great American Nude #82
1967

Gripflex and pencil on card. 31.3 x 50.4 cm. Signed and dated 'Wesselmann 67'. - Traces of studio and minor traces of age.

Paint Study for Great American Nude #82 is a study for the series of large format plexiglass works of the same name (Great American Nude #82) which were executed in five different colour variations in 1966. Wesselmann used gripflex colour for the study, as he also did with his versions on plexiglass. Originally, this colour was produced for use on plastic advertising signs.

Catalogue Raisonné

The present work is registered in the studio of Tom Wesselmann, New York.

Certificate

We would like to thank Brian Kenny, Tom Wesselmann Studio, New York, for helpful information.

Provenance

Private collection, North Germany