Tom Wesselmann

Big Blonde

1989

Artist: Alfred Leslie Title: Women, from One Cent Life Series: One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Initialled in Plate, lower right Dimensions: 1...

Artist: Claes Oldenburg Title: Parade of Women Series: One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Initialled in Plate, lower right Dimensions: 16.25 x 23" Provenance: Private Collec...

Artist: Tom Wesselmann Title: Where is My Baby Tonight (from One Cent Life Portfolio) Double lithograph, 2 sheets (printed on separate pages) Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Reference #: One Cent Life portfolio, page 72 (verso page 71) & 73 (verso is page 74) Page 71 is a lithograph by Kimber Smith...

Artist: Mel Ramos Title: Senorita Rio (from One Cent Life) Series: One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Dimensions: 16.25 x 23" Provenance: Private Collection, Berlin Origin...

Artist: Mel Ramos Title: Tiger Girl Portfolio: 1¢ Life Medium: Lithograph Year: 1964 Edition: 2000 Image Size: 16.25 in x 11.75 in Sold Unframed

Artist: Mel Ramos Title: I Still Get A Thrill When I See Bill I Medium: Lithograph in colors Date: 1979 Signed, dated and numbered 81/500 in pencil Excellent condition Dimensions: 28...

Screenprint on BFK paper, UNIQUE proof authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts

Monica Nude with Lichtenstein. Original color silkscreen on cardboard, 2002. Edition of 60 signed and numbered impressions on a cardboard. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to imagine that his artworks featuring consumer goods and assorted American icons would be considered anything but pop art. At first he was a follower of abstract expressionism, but later switched to figurative art. In the late ‘50s he produced a series of small format collages, which became the basis for his future nudes and still lifes. In 1963 he married Claire Selley, his most faithful model from the series ‘Great American Nude’, and other nudes. In his search for creative styles he began to produce three-dimensional works with the technique of assemblage, using everyday objects such as telephones and televisions. In the ‘Still Life’ series he used advertising techniques and complemented traditional still lifes with mass consumption items taken directly from ads. In the ‘80s he began to work with metals and produced original works with a special laser. Over the next two decades he returned to large formats and the theme of the nude from the ‘60s, rounding off his career with The ‘Sunset Nude’ series, inspired by the works of Matisse. Tom Wesselmann went down in history as one of the greatest representatives of pop art due to his exciting commercial images, his aggressive intervention in three dimensions, his choice of trivial motifs, their monumentalisation, the use of stereotypes as a basis for his work and the choice of strong colors. Wesselmann’s aesthetic usage of everyday objects was done not in criticism of American consumerism and culture, but as a way to render Classical genres modern so as to explore the gap between art and contemporary life. He has a series that incorporated iconic paintings by other artists, including Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Matisse, juxtaposing with his famous nudes...

Study for Drop-out Nude with Pink Stockings. Original colored pencil on Tracing Paper, 1984. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like bei...

Study for Sunset Nude (Variation 5). Original ink and colored pencil on Tracing Paper, 2002. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like bei...

Study for Sunset Nude with Abstract Painting (Lying on Side). Original ink and colored pencil on Tracing Paper, 2002. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today....

Blue Socks. Original color liquitex on Ragboard, 1968. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to...