The often neglected painter is at the heart of an ambitious survey of Pop Art
Halfway through Fondation Louis Vuitton’s enjoyable and unexpected exhibition Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & . . . a bright red phone rings. It is mounted bang centre in Wesselmann’s 1963 painting “Great American Nude #44”. Reach to answer, and you find you can’t lift the receiver. The painting also stars a brash, grinning nude, legs wide apart, hands behind head, modelled by Wesselmann’s wife, Claire Selley.
No expense has been spared to borrow Pop Art’s icons. Warhol’s sparkling “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” — sold in 2022 for $195mn, the record for a 20th-century artwork — meets Wesselmann’s “Mouth #14 ”, a huge shaped canvas of pouting scarlet lips with wisps of hair drifting across them like flames.
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