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Tom Wesselmann
Smoking Cigarette, 1998
Mixed media
Starting bid:
€ 4,500 Estimate:
€ 5,000End: 09-15-25 15:24:00 Berlin
09-15-25 09:24:00 New York
09-15-25 06:24:00 Los Angeles (23 days, 10h:25m)
09-15-25 09:24:00 New York
09-15-25 06:24:00 Los Angeles (23 days, 10h:25m)
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Lot description
Smoking Cigarette. 1998.
Mixed media. Liquitex on collaged cardboard.
Signed and dated in the center. Verso with handwritten dimensions and technical information, as well as the inventory number of the Tom Wesselmann Estate. On Bristol cardboard. 4 x 3.8 cm (1.5 x 1.4 in). Sheet: 14 x 12,7 cm (5,51 x 4,72 in).
[MH].
• Iconic Wesselmann motif.
• Alongside Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, Wesselmann is one of the protagonists of American Pop Art.
• Most recently, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris presented the exhibition “Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann &..,” which was a huge success with the public.
We are grateful to the estate of Tom Wesselmann for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Benden and Klimczak, Viersen.
Private collection, Lower Saxony (acquired from the above around 1999).
In very good condition.
Mixed media. Liquitex on collaged cardboard.
Signed and dated in the center. Verso with handwritten dimensions and technical information, as well as the inventory number of the Tom Wesselmann Estate. On Bristol cardboard. 4 x 3.8 cm (1.5 x 1.4 in). Sheet: 14 x 12,7 cm (5,51 x 4,72 in).
[MH].
• Iconic Wesselmann motif.
• Alongside Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, Wesselmann is one of the protagonists of American Pop Art.
• Most recently, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris presented the exhibition “Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann &..,” which was a huge success with the public.
We are grateful to the estate of Tom Wesselmann for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Benden and Klimczak, Viersen.
Private collection, Lower Saxony (acquired from the above around 1999).
In very good condition.
49
Tom Wesselmann
Smoking Cigarette, 1998
Mixed media
Starting bid:
€ 4,500 Estimate:
€ 5,000End: 09-15-25 15:24:00 Berlin
09-15-25 09:24:00 New York
09-15-25 06:24:00 Los Angeles (23 days, 10h:25m)
09-15-25 09:24:00 New York
09-15-25 06:24:00 Los Angeles (23 days, 10h:25m)
After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.