"Study for Sunset Nude (Sitting)", 2002

ink and coloured pencil on tracing paper

image 7,9 x 6,9 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.) paper 14 x 14,3 cm ( 5 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)

signed and dated upper right

About the work

Wesselmann owed his highly recognizable style to reduction and simplicity. He reduced the objects or bodies he painted to the essential, using clear colours. The female nude was his favourite object. Starting with the "Great American Nudes", the artist moved ever closer to his subject, painting body parts like feet, breasts and lips.