Lot #729: TOM WESSELMANN - Wesselmann: Graphics/Multiples Retrospective, 1964-1989 - Original color silkscreen and lithograph

 

Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931 - 2004).
Title: "Wesselmann: Graphics/Multiples Retrospective, 1964-1989".
Medium: Original color silkscreen and lithograph.
Date: Composed 1990.
Dimensions: Overall size: 25 x 17 in. (635 x 432 mm). Image size: 13 3/4 x 14 5/8 in. (349 x 371 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,200
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,600/2,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Very light cream watermarked 100% rag wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression with extremely fresh, bright colors. Fine to very fine condition.
Comment(s): Very rare. We have located only one auction record for this print (an unsigned impression): a sale for $2,620 (€1,875) at Dorotheum, Vienna, 03/14/2011. Issued for the Hara Museum, Tokyo, exhibition of April 28-June 6, 1990. Unlike other Pop artists (Warhol, Lichtenstein), Wesselmann posters are very uncommon/scarce. Our example is undoubtedly one of the few signed Hara posters, very scarce in their own right. The printing quality is absolutely superb. Image © Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. [26574-5-1200-NA]