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TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
Quick Nude Torso
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'TW 80' (lower right)
colored marker on paper
image: 6 x 6 in. (15.2 x 15.2 cm.)
sheet: 1058 x 14 in. (27 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in 1980.
Provenance
Private collection, New York, gift of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Lot Essay

“For many years, drawing, especially from the nude, was a desperate attempt to capture something significant of the beauty of the woman I was confronted with. It was always frustrating, because the beauty of the woman was so elusive. I took consolation in the knowledge, however, that what really mattered was that I made a drawing that was beautiful in its own terms...”

(T. Wesselmann quoted in Tom Wesselmann Draws, exh. cat., Haunch of Venison, New York, November 2009, p. 45).

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