Pop Artist Dies

American pop artist Tom Wesselmann, famous for creating female nudes and showing them with objects like radios, fridges or cigarettes, has died aged 73 following heart surgery in a New York.

A contemporary of artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein, he was inspired by de Kooning, Matisse and Mondrian.
Although he prefered giving his art the "commercial look" without any signs of the hand of the painter, he was reportedly working recently on a series of nudes painted in the abstract expressionist style.