Monica in Robe with Motherwell. 1992.
Alkyd auf Aluminium.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed, as well as marked with a directional arrow and mounting instructions on the reverse. Unique object. 157.5 x 238.8 cm (62 x 94 in).
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• One of a kind.
• Pop Art meets Abstract Expressionism: a tribute to Tom Wesselmann's great idol Robert Motherwell, who had passed away a year earlier.
• Exhibited at the renowned Sidney Janis Gallery in New York the year it was created.
• Wesselmann's erotic and provocative female nudes are considered icons of American Pop Art.
• In the 1980s, a new model, Monica Serra, a young artist with characteristic bangs, appeared in his works.
• Most recently, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris presented the successful exhibition “Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann &..,”.

We are grateful to the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, for the kind support.

PROVENANCE: Imago Galleries, Palm Desert.
Private collection, Germany.
Private collection, Germany.

EXHIBITION: Tom Wesselmann: New Metal Paintings, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, October 15 15 - November 14, 1992.

"The first aesthetic experience..He felt a sensation of high visceral excitement in his stomach, and it seemed as though his eyes and stomach were directly connected."
Tom Wesselmann, under the pseudonym S. Stealingworth, on his encounter with Robert Motherwell's “Elegy to the Spanish Republic 54” at MoMA, New York, 1980, p. 12.