LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Cor-Ten steel and stainless steel

Measurements:

120.00 in. (304.80 cm.) (height) by 44.00 in. (111.76 cm.) (width) by 24.00 in. (60.96 cm.) (width)

Edition:

2 of 3

Markings:

incised with the artist's name, title and date 'CLOTHESPIN TEN FOOT © 1974 CLAES OLDENBURG' (on the base); stamped with the Lippincott foundry mark (on the base)

Exhibited:

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, April-May 1974 (another example exhibited). Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oldenburg: Six Themes , April—May 1975, p. 66, no. 203 (illustrated)

Literature:

Sculpture: The Tradition in Steel, exh. cat., Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1983, n.p. (another example illustrated). A, Hindry, ed., Claude Berri meets Leo Castelli, Paris, 1990, pl. 52 (another example illustrated in color). Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1995, p. 540 (installation view illustrated). J. D. Lippincott, Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s, New York, 2010, p. 189 (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975