Multiple . Steel cut, painted in color. Signed, numbered, dated, titled and inscribed with dimensions on the reverse by the artist. From an edition of 25 copies. 29 x 17 cm.
Published by the artist and Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. [KA]. The Bar Code of Life - The Hans Braun Collection More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.
- Wesselmann's striking steel cut in bright colors illustrates why he is an icon of pop art. - The piece shows Monica, an artist and long-time assistant of Tom Wesselmann, who posed for him from the mid-1980s. - The artist's works in metal mark a pinnacle of his technical skill. - The sketch-like delicacy of the painted steel shows Wesselmann's creative idiosyncrasy, almost as if he were drawing with the metal. - Wesselmann's nudes appear in numerous international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Tate Modern, London.
LITERATURE: The Wildenstein Plattner Institute / Tom Wesselmann Estate (ed.), The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus, online catalog raisonné no. TWSCHY. - - Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 230th auction, May 8, 1999, lot 107.