Tag: Tom Wesselmann
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Michel Comte’s Untitled, 1991, with footnotes #198
Sold for USD 200,000 in March 2020 Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the…
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13 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, TOM WESSELMANN’s Reclining Stockinged Nudes, with footnotes #197
Unique works from the Stockinged Nude series: 26 hand-painted works, each with different colour combinations of hair, skin and stockings… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselman’s Monica Sitting with Mondrian, with footnotes # 133
Mondrian refers to the artist whose painting is shown behind the model. Wesselmann’s most famous series, “Great American Nude” (1961–73), channels the brazen energy of American advertising and features flat, faceless female figures whom the artist often situated among stars and stripes. More on this painting The artist always refrains from developing the facial features of the…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselmann’s an american portrait, with footnotes # 128
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 69
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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Tom Wesselmann, Study for Nude Lithograph, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 15
Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from their rocket-red mouths. Their crisp outlines resonate with the immediacy of a neon sign. Like the nudes of Titian, Velasquez, or Rubens, Wesselmann’s mid-century modern nudes…
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Tom Wesselmann, LONG DELAYED NUDE 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 14
Tom Wesselmann, 1931 – 2004 LONG DELAYED NUDE, dated 1967-75 Oil on shaped canvas 172 x 258 cm; 67 3/4 x 101 9/16 in. Private property Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from…