Signed 'Wesselmann 86' on verso
This work is registered under Studio Number 42A with the Estate of Tom Wesselmann

This work revisits the imagery in one of Tom Wesselmann’s best-known series, the Bedroom Paintings, on a monumental scale using Wesselmann's newly discovered medium of laser-cut metal. In 1984, Wesselmann collaborated with metalworker Alfred Lippincott to develop a new art format. With cut-out metal, the artist envisioned the “scribble as the final product”, allowing him to enlarge his drawings, and to place them directly onto a wall. Created in the early years of the artist’s experimentation with this specific process, the lines of the work remained sharp and precise, yet loose, fluid, and spontaneous. Transforming his intimate depictions of the female nude, Wesselmann described the works on metal as “beautiful, a vivid expression of a valid idea, presented in a specific form that has never been seen before.”