Biography
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati in February 1931 and died in New York in December 2004. After studying at the Cooper Union in New York, he soon joined the informal group dubbed Pop Art by the critics. His works are part of the collections of many museums around the world, including the MoMa and the Whitney Museum (New York), the Smithsonian Museum (Washington D.C.), the Museum Ludwig (Cologne) or the Nationalgalerie (Berlin). While he was recognized later in France than his companions Lichtenstein, Warhol, Rauschenberg or Jasper Johns, several major retrospectives have been dedicated to him in French institutions: at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 1994, at the Musée Matisse in Nice in 2023, and at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris until February 2025.
