Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil, 1985 is a vibrant, unique original work that captures the bold color, simplified forms, and distinctly American imagery that made Wesselmann one of the most important figures associated with the Pop Art movement. Executed in acrylic Liquitex on board, the composition reimagines the traditional still life through Wesselmann’s unmistakable visual language. A brilliant yellow daffodil, a red-orange goldfish, and elements of a domestic interior are reduced to energetic fields of saturated color outlined within a strong black framework. The spontaneous, almost gestural quality of the composition contrasts with the polished precision of Wesselmann’s larger paintings, offering an intimate view into the artist’s creative process and the development of his celebrated still-life imagery. Throughout his career, Wesselmann repeatedly returned to the American domestic interior and still life, transforming everyday objects, flowers, food, household furnishings, and the human figure into bold icons of contemporary life. As a unique, hand-signed and dated original Tom Wesselmann work, Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil offers collectors an exceptional opportunity to acquire an original composition directly connected to one of the defining subjects of his career.

Created in 1985, Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil is an original acrylic Liquitex on board measuring 6 x 9 inches (image), on a 12 x 15 inch sheet. This work is unique and original and is hand signed and dated by Tom Wesselmann (Cincinnati, 1931–New York City, 2004) in pencil in the lower right.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil, 1985, is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1.  A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany our Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil, 1985.

About the Framing:

Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Goldfish and Daffodil, 1985, is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards and presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.

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