Tom Wesselmann

3-D Illuminated Drawing - Nude 1966 for Great American Nude #84

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September 27, 03:01 PM GMT

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450,000 - 650,000 USD

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Tom Wesselmann

1931 - 2004

3-D Illuminated Drawing - Nude 1966 for Great American Nude #84

signed and dated 66 (upper left)

charcoal and paint on illuminated molded plastic

44 ½ by 53 ¾ by 6 in.

113 by 136.5 by 15.2 cm.

Executed in 1966.

This work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

Please note the correct medium for this work is charcoal and paint on illuminated molded plastic

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in June 1966)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Sandra Furlotti Reberschak, "I Grandi Colezionisti: A Katonah e a New York, le case e l'ufficio di Harry Abrams: I mille e uno quadri di un grande editore d'arte," Bolaffi Arte, n. 67, anno VIII, February - March 1977, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color

Slim Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, Abbeville Press, Inc., New York 1980, p. 49, illustrated (titled as Three-Dimensional Illuminated Drawing; Three-Dimensional Illuminated Drawing – Nude 1966)

New York, The Jewish Museum, The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, June - September 1966, no. 158 (titled as Nude)