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Tom Wesselmann — Maquette for Still Life with Fruit, Petunias and Claire (3-D)
Tom Wesselmann

Maquette for Still Life with Fruit, Petunias and Claire (3-D)

1987

This vibrant maquette presents a collage like composition combining figurative and still life elements characteristic of Pop Art aesthetics. The work features a stylized female profile in blonde hair alongside a boldly outlined bowl of fruit rendered in bright, contrasting colors. Blue birds fly through a sky blue background, while pink floral forms and geometric shapes create visual rhythm throughout the composition. The layered assembly, executed across what appears to be acrylic or paint on board, demonstrates the artist's exploration of incorporating disparate imagery and commercial visual language into fine art.

Medium
board mounted on board
Overall

Notes

Contemporary Day Auction, Sotheby's, sale on 2026-05-15.

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Contemporary Day Auction

May 15, 2026

Estimate: $150,000$200,000

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Tom Wesselmann, Maquette for Still Life with Fruit, Petunias and Claire (3-D), 1987

This vibrant maquette presents a collage like composition combining figurative and still life elements characteristic of Pop Art aesthetics. The work features a stylized female profile in blonde hair alongside a boldly outlined bowl of fruit rendered in bright, contrasting colors. Blue birds fly through a sky blue background, while pink floral forms and geometric shapes create visual rhythm throughout the composition. The layered assembly, executed across what appears to be acrylic or paint on board, demonstrates the artist's exploration of incorporating disparate imagery and commercial visual language into fine art.

Medium
board mounted on board
Dimensions
overall: 27.9 x 31.8 x 5.1 cm
Year
1987
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Figurative Forms, Portrait Fragment, Floral Elements, Geometric Forms, Maquette Study, Colorful Abstraction, Board Work, Collage Composition, Mixed Media, Modern Composition, Pop Art, Visual Collage, Fruit Imagery, Contemporary Painting, American Art, Bright Colors, Blue Palette, Still Life

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Collected by

John McNally