Tom Wesselmann

Monica with Tulips

1989

Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: Mixed Nuts Year: 2008 Medium: Enamel on Steel, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 125, 25 AP Size: 28 in. x 20 in. x 1.5 in. (71.12 c...

Artist: Peter Max Title: Ballet Story Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 165 Image Size: 24.5 x 18.5 inches Paper Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm...

Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002) Title: For Adults Only Year: 1971 Medium: Offset Lithograph with Collage on Two Sheets of Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil Editi...

Artist: Mel Ramos Title: Bonnard's Bath Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 500, HC Paper Size: 21 x 28 inches Frame Size: 29 x 35 inches

Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: Candy (Baby Ruth) Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Paper Size: 24.5 in...

Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: Camilla Year: 1989 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 161 Image Size: 37 x 32 inches Paper Size: 42 in. x ...

Tom Wesselmann- Bedroom Dropout, 1983 Woodcut on Kizuki Hanga wove paper Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘Wesselmann '83 34/50’ This work is number 34 from the edition of 50...

Study for Sunset Nude with Abstract Painting. Original ink and colored pencil on Tracing Paper, 2002. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not...

Study for Bedroom Blonde with Lavender Wallpaper. Original color pencil and liquitex on Ragboard, 1985. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest Americ...

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....

Judy on Blue Blanket. Original color silkscreen on Museum Board, 2000. Edition of 75 signed and numbered impressions on Museum Board. Tom Wesselmann is on...

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...