Drawing After Bedroom Painting #6

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)

Drawing After Bedroom Painting #6

Closed: 7 Oct 2020

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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Drawing After Bedroom Painting #6
incised with the artist's signature and date 'Wesselmann 69' (lower right)
Liquitex gesso and charcoal on linen
27 ½ x 45 in. (69.9 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed in 1969.

Studio Marconi, Milan
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 19 May 2000, lot 199
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Work by Wesselmann, April-May 1970, no. 28 (illustrated in an installation view).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Denver Art Museum and Cincinnati Art Museum, Beyond Pop: Tom Wesselmann, May 2012-January 2015, p. 193, no. 132 (illustrated as Drawing for Bedroom Painting No. 6).
Paris, Almine Rech Gallery, Tom Wesselmann: A Different Kind of Woman, October-December 2016, p. 84 (illustrated on the cover).

This work will be included in the forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonne currently being prepared by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

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See, I'd gotten over the years excited about scale, coming closer on the nude. I'd gotten a little tired of doing full length nudes because everything else in the painting had to be so small. It wasn't exciting enough to my eye. ...I wanted to deal with these big shapes; so I came in closer and closer on the nude...That was really when my work began to me, when I made that realization of what I'm excited by.
—Tom Wesselmann

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