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.