WESSELMANN, TOM
1931 Cincinnati, OH/USA–2004 New York

Title: Smoking Cigarette.
Date: 1998.
Technique: Liquitex on paper collage on card.
Measurement: 12.5 x 15 cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower centre: Wesselman 98.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


We are grateful to the Tom Wesselmann estate for their support in cataloguing this lot



Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

- VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 322nd auction, 7.6.2013, lot 252

- Michael Neff, Frankfurt a.M. (label/ acquired in 2014)



- The lit cigarette as a humorous allusion to American consumer society

- Refers to the artist’s famous cut-out works



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