Sale: 500 / Evening Sale, July 17. 2020 in Munich Lot 261

 

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Tom Wesselmann
Cochecton Pool, Delaware River (from Lynda's), 1989.
Steel cut with enamel paint
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 237,500 / $ 256,500

(incl. surcharge)
Cochecton Pool, Delaware River (from Lynda's). 1989.
Steel cut with enamel paint.
Verso with several signatures, date and inscription as well as with comprehensive handling instructions. 162 x 232 cm (63.7 x 91.3 in).

• Landscape depiction from the work group of the Steel-Cuts are of great rarity
• Large-size work with an impressive spatial presence
• Sketch-like captured landscape concept materialized in steel
• Appealing coloring in typical illustrative Pop-Art style
• Unique work
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This work is registered in the archives of the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Great Britain.

"I anticipated how exciting it would be for me to get a drawing back in steel. I could hold it in my hands. I could pick it up by the lines, off the paper. It was so exciting. It was like suddenly I was a whole new artist."
Tom Wesselmann (quote from www.denverartmuseum.org)




261
Tom Wesselmann
Cochecton Pool, Delaware River (from Lynda's), 1989.
Steel cut with enamel paint
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 237,500 / $ 256,500

(incl. surcharge)