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Great American Nude No. 48 by 
																	Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann

( American, 1931 - 2004 )

Great American Nude No. 48

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Materials:

oil and collage on canvas, acrylic and collage on board, enameled radiator and assemblage (including window illumination)

Measurements:

83.98 in. (213.30 cm.) (height) by 106.73 in. (271.10 cm.) (width) by 40.47 in. (102.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 63, signed on the stretcher

Exhibited:

New York, Green Gallery, Recent Work, 1963. Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, Mixed Media and Pop Art, November - December 1963, cat. no. 78. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Amerikansk Pop-Konst, February - April 1964, p. 103, illustrated. London, Hayward Gallery, Pop Art, July - September 1969. Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger Jahre, November 1983 - April 1984, cat. nos. 414, p. 79, illustrated in color. Tübingen, Institut für Kulturaustausch; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Berlin, Altes Museum; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; Rotterdam, Kunsthall Rotterdam; Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pflaz; Madrid, Fundaciòn Juan March; Barcelona, Fundaciòn Caixa de Cataluna; London, Barbican Art Center; Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne; Lisbon, Gestao de Espacos Culturais, Tom Wesselmann, April 1994 - November 1996, cat. no. 18, illustrated in color. Krefeld, Haus Lange, Werke der Pop Art aus der Sammlung Lauffs, March - August 2002, p. 15, illustrated in color. Rome, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Tom Wesselmann, June - September 2005, p. 57, illustrated in color

Literature:

John Rublowsky, Pop Art, New York, 1965, n.p., illustrated in color. Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas, Icons and Images of the Sixties, New York, 1971, p. 124, illustrated. Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and traveling), George Segal: Sculptures, 1978, p. 66, illustrated. Slim Stealingworth, Wesselmann, New York, 1980, p. 36, illustrated in color. Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art (and traveling), Tom Wesselmann: A Retrospective Survey 1969 - 1992, 1993, p. 16, illustrated. Contemporary Great Masters, Tom Wesselmann, Tokyo, 1993, pl. no. 76, p. 90, illustrated in color. Sam Hunter, Tom Wesselmann, New York, 1994, pl. 42, illustrated in color. Exh. Cat., Venezia, Flora Bigai Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (and traveling), Tom Wesselmann, 2003, p. 10, illustrated

Provenance:

Green Gallery, New York. Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis. Onnasch Galerie, Berlin. Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1971

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