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The collects ion of Geraldine and Harold Alden

Tom Wesselmann

Great American Nude No. 43

Auction Closed

September 28, 08:29 PM GTNN

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The collects ion of Geraldine and Harold Alden

Tom Wesselmann

1931 - 2004

Great American Nude No. 43


signed and dated '63 (on the reverse)

oil, enamel, acrylic, fabric, paper and cardboard collage with television set on panel

48 by 47 ¾ by 8 in.

121.9 by 121.3 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1963.


Please note that this work will be included in the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus published by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and will be included in their forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné.

Green Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1963)

Christie's, New York, 7 November 1989, lot 12

Private collects ion, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 45

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, Etc., February - March 1965, no. 157 (checklist) 

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the collects ion of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, 1968, no. 78 (checklist) 

University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Contemporary Art from the Robert B. Mayer collects ion, 1976

Washington, D.C., National collects ion of Replica Handbags s, America as Art, 1976, no. 340, p. 301, illustrated

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of collects ing at the MCA, 1984

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nouveau Realism and Pop Art, 1985, n.p., illustrated

Exh. Cat., Montreal Museum of Replica Handbags s, Beyond Pop: Tom Wesselmann, 2012, p. 26 (text)

Exh. Cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, Art about Art, 1978, pp. 152-153, illustrated