Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Tom Wesselmann
Great American Nude No. 43
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden
Tom Wesselmann
1931 - 2004
Great American Nude No. 43
signed wesselmann and dated '63 (on the reverse)
oil, enamel, acrylic, fabric, paper and cardboard collage with television set on panel
48 by 47¾ by 8 in.
121.9 by 121.3 by 20.3 cm.
Executed in 1963.
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.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1963)
Christie's New York, 7 November 1989, lot 12
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1998, lot 45
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, Art about Art, 1978, p. 152-153, illustrated
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, Etc., February - March 1965, no. 157 (checklist)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, 1968, no. 78 (checklist)
University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Contemporary Art from the Robert B. Mayer Collection, 1976
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, America as Art, 1976, no. 340, p. 301, illustrated
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, 1984
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nouveau Realism and Pop Art, 1985, n.p., illustrated