TOM WESSELMANN (b. 1931)

Property from the Collection of MICHAEL D. ABRAMS

Details

TOM WESSELMANN (b. 1931)

Great American Nude #52

emulsion and acrylic polymer on board with fabric and printed reproduction
60 x 48in. (152.4 x 121.9cm.)

Executed in 1963

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist

Literature

S. Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, New York 1980, p. 137 (illustrated)

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Mansfield Fine Arts Guild; San Francisco State College; Los Angeles Valley College; Van Nuys, Museum of Fine Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Oswego, State University College, Art in the Mirror, Nov. 1966-March 1968, no. 43
Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas; San Marcos, California, Palomar College; Saratoga Springs, Hathorn Gallery; Oswego, New York, State University College; Columbus, Huntington Trust Gallery; Nashville, Tennessee Fine Arts Center; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Tuscon Art Center, and Johnson City, East Tennessee State University, The Figure International, Oct. 1968-Nov. 1969, no. 18
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, Nov.-Dec. 1977, no. 230 (illustrated)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Raleigh, The North Carolina Museum of Art; Los Angeles, University of California, The Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, and Portland Art Museum, Art About Art, July 1978-April 1979, no. 53

Lot Essay

Please note that this painting has been requested by the Institut für Kulturaustausch for the exhibition Tom Wesselmann-A Retrospective Survey, 1959-1993, which will open at the Kunsthalle Tübingen in April 1994 and travel until November 1996. The exhibition will tour to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Berlin, Altes Museum; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; Kunsthall Rotterdam; Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Barcelona, Fundación Caixa de Cataluna; London, Barbican Art Center, and Nice, Museé d'Art Moderne.