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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 6B | $****** - ****** | Great American Nude #26 |
paintings
152.4 x 121.9 cm (60 x 48 in)
oil, canvas collage, metallic foil paper and printed paper collage on board
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 62' (near the center right edge), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'GAN 25 [sic] Wesselmann 62' (on the reverse)
Green Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1964
New York, Green Gallery, Wesselmann: Collages/Great American Nude & Still Life, November-December 1962.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Los Angeles, University of California; Portland Art Museum, Art About Art, July 1978-April 1979, n.p., pl. 11 (illustrated in color).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Beyond Pop: Tom Wesselmann, May 2012-July 2013, pp. 74 and 190, no. 30 (illustrated in color).
J. Russell, "Persistent Pop," New York Times Magazine, 21 July 1974, p. 7 (illustrated).
American Pop Art, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974, p. 50, no 45 (illustrated).
Art About Art, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978, p. 87, pl. 11 (illustrated in color).
S. Stealingworth, Wesselmann, New York, 1980, p. 108 (illustrated in color).
D. McCarthy, "Tom Wesselmann and the Americanization of the Nude, 1961-1963," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1990, p. 106 (illustrated).
Tom Wesselmann: Recent Still Lifes and Landscapes, exh. cat., Tokyo, Galerie Tokoro, 1991, n.p. (illustrated).
Contemporary Great Masters: Tom Wesselmann, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 89 and 110, pl. 75 (illustrated in color).
L. Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twenthieth-Century Art Forms, New York and London, 2000, p. 59.
D. McCarthy, Pop Art, London, 2000, p. 51 (illustrated in color).
M. E. Buszek, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, Durham and London, 2006, p. 264.
M. Hand, The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art, Chicago, 2011, pp. 89 and 102 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated).
D. Horowitz, Consuming Pleasures: Intellectual and Popular Culture in the Postwar World, Philadelphia, 2012, p. 232.
signed and dated 'Wesselmann 62' (near the center right edge); signed again, inscribed and dated again 'GAN 25 [sic] Wesselmann 62' (on the reverse)
oil, canvas collage, metallic foil paper and printed paper collage on board
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1962.
