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Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit is an original screenprint in colors on wove paper with the printer’s blindstamp. This print is from the pencil signed and numbered edition of 100.
This stunning Tom Wesselmann Still Life is a prime example of large scale Wesselmann silkscreen print from the 1970’s – 80’s. The brilliantly colored silhouettes are an elegant, simplified solution to the classic Still Life.
Tom Wesselmann was an American Pop artist best known for his collages, sculptures, and screenprints that stylized the female figure. Often isolating segments of the body—red lips with a cigarette, a single nipple, or a stylish shoe—his artworks aim was to seize a viewer’s attention. “The prime mission of my art, in the beginning, and continuing still, is to make figurative art as exciting as abstract art,” he once said of his work. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, OH, he was drafted into the US Army to serve in the Korean War in 1952. Returning home after the war, he studied drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati before working as an illustrator of comic strips and men’s magazines. In 1956, he moved to New York where he attended the Cooper Union. Soon after graduation, Wesselmann founded the Judson Gallery, along with Jim Dine and Marcus Ratliff. Beginning in the 1960s, with his Great American Nude series, Wesselman drew from Americana and media culture, to produce billboard-scaled paintings in flat bold colours. Like Dine, he was associated with the Pop Art movement but disagreed with being labelled as such. Through the following decades, the artist honed his idiosyncratic style while continuing to live in New York, NY until his death on December 17, 2004. Today, the artist’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
| Title | Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit |
|---|---|
| Medium | Screenprint |
| Year | 1988 |
| Edition | 100 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | NA |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 56 x 70 (in) 142.25 x 178 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
Category: Tom Wesselmann
Description
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit is an original screenprint in colors on wove paper with the printer’s blindstamp. This print is from the pencil signed and numbered edition of 100.
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
This stunning Tom Wesselmann Still Life is a prime example of large scale Wesselmann silkscreen print from the 1970’s – 80’s. The brilliantly colored silhouettes are an elegant, simplified solution to the classic Still Life.
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
Tom Wesselmann was an American Pop artist best known for his collages, sculptures, and screenprints that stylized the female figure. Often isolating segments of the body—red lips with a cigarette, a single nipple, or a stylish shoe—his artworks aim was to seize a viewer’s attention. “The prime mission of my art, in the beginning, and continuing still, is to make figurative art as exciting as abstract art,” he once said of his work. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, OH, he was drafted into the US Army to serve in the Korean War in 1952. Returning home after the war, he studied drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati before working as an illustrator of comic strips and men’s magazines.
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
In 1956, he moved to New York where he attended the Cooper Union. Soon after graduation, Wesselmann founded the Judson Gallery, along with Jim Dine and Marcus Ratliff. Beginning in the 1960s, with his Great American Nude series, Wesselman drew from Americana and media culture, to produce billboard-scaled paintings in flat bold colours.
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
Like Dine, he was associated with the Pop Art movement but disagreed with being labelled as such. Through the following decades, the artist honed his idiosyncratic style while continuing to live in New York, NY until his death on December 17, 2004. Today, the artist’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit
Additional information
| Title | Still Life with Petunias, Lillies and Fruit |
|---|---|
| Medium | Screenprint |
| Year | 1988 |
| Edition | 100 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | NA |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 56 x 70 (in) 142.25 x 178 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
