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American | 1931 - 2004

Tom Wesselmann was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1931. His work is currently being shown at Adler Beatty in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sotheby's Paris have featured Tom Wesselmann's work in the past.Tom Wesselmann's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 10,681,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,681,000 USD for Great American Nude No. 48, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2008. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 249,924 USD, while his sculptures have sold for an average of 118,788 USD.Tom Wesselmann has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2025. The artist died in 2004.

Artist's alternative names: T. Wesselman, Thomas K. Wesselmann, Tom Wesselman

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Featured for Sale

NUDE WITH BOUQUET AND STOCKINGS

By Tom Wesselmann

Gallery Art

Blonde on Blanket

By Tom Wesselmann

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Great American Nude #41 ,1962

By Tom Wesselmann

Christie's New York

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Mouth #14 (Marilyn) ,1967

By Tom Wesselmann

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GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #34 - Tom Wesselmann

GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #34 ,1962

By Tom Wesselmann

18 YEAR OLD ON THE BEACH - Tom Wesselmann

18 YEAR OLD ON THE BEACH ,1984

By Tom Wesselmann

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Study for Sneakers & Purple Panties - Tom Wesselmann

Study for Sneakers & Purple Panties ,1981

By Tom Wesselmann

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Study for Great American Nude #54 - Tom Wesselmann

Study for Great American Nude #54 ,1963

By Tom Wesselmann

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Seascape (Foot ,1968

By Tom Wesselmann

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Still Life with Lilies and Mixed Fruit - Tom Wesselmann

Still Life with Lilies and Mixed Fruit ,1998

By Tom Wesselmann

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Monica Lying Down One Arm Up - Tom Wesselmann

Monica Lying Down One Arm Up ,1990

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Monica reclining on back, knees up - Tom Wesselmann

Monica reclining on back, knees up ,1990

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Current Exhibitions

The Art-Led Interior

Wexler Gallery, New York

Midtown | New York | USA

18 Sep, 2025 - 31 Dec, 2025

Night Shift

LAMB

Mayfair | London | UK

14 Oct, 2025 - 29 Nov, 2025

In Between: Italian and American Art from Ghisla Collection

Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection

Locarno | Switzerland

14 Mar, 2025 - 04 Jan, 2026

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鈥� .. He is best known for his career-spanning series, 鈥淕reat American Nude,鈥� which featured female figures in intensely saturated interiors... 鈥�
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea

鈥� ..Wesselmann's choices of subject matter - nude, still life, landscape - are universally recognisable classical themes from the canon of art history... 鈥�
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Cristea Roberts Gallery

鈥� ..g time and again been at the forefront in reconfiguring the latest technologies to serve his own artistic goals, such as the vacuum-formed plastic paintings 鈥淎merican Nudes鈥� from the 1960s, Wesselmann鈥檚... 鈥�
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Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich (Paradeplatz)

鈥� ..Wesselmann once said, 鈥渢he challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.鈥� Wesselmann鈥檚 innovative fusion of drawing and steel set him apart and created an eternal legacy... 鈥�
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David Benrimon Fine Art

鈥� ..Within an intentionally limited scope of subject matter, Wesselmann crafted an innovative body of work that evolved constantly... 鈥�
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Cincinnati Art Museum

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