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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

Drawing for Embossed Nude

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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.
Further Details
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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Lot Essay

"[Wesselmann's] restrained yet loving hatchwork has a kind of breath-held expectation ironed out of the cool, resolved work for which this would have been preparatory."
—D. Cohen, "The Joy of Coyness," The New York Sun, 12 July 2007, p. 22.

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