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“Painting by Tom Wesselmann: Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2004 (Oil on canvas)” / Bernard Jacobson Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14062

American painter Tom Wesselmann (1931 – 2004) is regarded as one of the founding members of American Pop Art. Alongside his contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, Wessellmann produced artworks using imagery seen in everyday popular culture.

 

He is famous for his “Great American Nude” series beginning in the 1960s, which played on the “corruption of Eros by a consumer society.” This series feature female figures in highly suggestive forms and painted in very patriotic primary colors in red, white, yellow and blue.

 

In the 1970s, Wesselmann’s work became increasingly sculptural and started working with constructions and assemblages, but in his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female form in the “Sunset Nudes” series (pictured) with very simple lines and forms. The artist acknowledge the influence of Mondrian by choosing titles that recall the earlier painter’s works, and is he seen with his own still life painting, but painted in a style which bears influence from Henri Matisse.

 

Tom Wesselmann

Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2004

Oil on canvas

142.9 x 198.1 cm

56 1/4 x 78 inches

Signed and dated on canvas overlap verso: "Wesselmann 04"

 

www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1411584&amp...

 

# Tom Wesselmann

1931 Born Cincinnati, US

1949-1951 Hiram College, transferred to major in Psychology at the University of Cincinnati

1952 US Army

1954 Art Academy of Cincinnati

1956 Cooper Union

 

2004 Died (age 73)

 

Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wesselmann

 

# Bernard Jacobson Gallery

www.jacobsongallery.com/

 

17 East 71st Street

New York, NY 10021

USA

 

6 Cork Street

London W1S 3NX

United Kingdom

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:58:47+0800

+ Dimensions: 3487 x 2459

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length:40 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14062

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

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“Painting by Tom Wesselmann: Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2004 (Oil on canvas)” / Bernard Jacobson Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14062

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