Sale 2578 | Lot 150
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Showing graphite in raking light
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Sale 2578 - Lot 150
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
TOM OF FINLAND (1920-1991)
Untitled.
Pencil on paper. 210x297 mm; 8 1/4x11 3/4 inches. Signed "© Tom-65." Mounted to backing board in several places, verso. 1965.
Tom of Finland Foundation catalogue number 65.31.
Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York.
Published: Dian Hanson, Tom of Finland: XXL, Cologne: Taschen, 2009; 2021, page 230 (which dates drawing to 1968).
Exhibited: "Tom of Finland: Male Masterworks," World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, 2012; Retrospective II and III.
Condition:
Good, strong graphite marking throughout. Faint undersketching visible. Light penciled border visible mainly along three sides (excluding left).
Diagonal crease across top left corner.
A few inked notations on verso referring to placement (possibly in Tom's hand) visible from recto, right side, behind figures at fence.
Mounted to stiff board mount in roughly 7 spots.