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Materials:

Liquitex on canvas filled with cotton and burlap, on canvas-covered wooden base

Size Notes:

18 x 16

Description:

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Markings:

signed Claes Oldenburg and dated 1965 (on the underside); signed with the initials C.O. and dated 1965 (on the base)

Exhibited:

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery,New Work by Oldenburg, 1966, p. 8, no. 14, illustrated; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario,Dine-Oldenburg-Segal: Painting/Sculpture, 1967; New York, Museum of Modern Art,Claes Oldenburg, 1969, no. 78, p. 149, illustrated; New York Acquavella Galleries,The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art,2013, no. 52, p. 163, illustrated in color; New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery,404E14, 2013, p. 5, illustrated in color; New York, Acquavella Galleries,Three Dimensions: Modern & Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture, 2017, no. 19, p. 46, illustrated

Literature:

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, 1995, no. 134

Provenance:

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Roger Davidson, Toronto; The Mayor Gallery, London; Christie's London, 23 October 1998, lot 96; Private Collection, Paris; Christie's New York, 14 November 2002, lot 141; Private Collection; Christie's New York, 16 November 2006, lot 157; Acquired from the above by the present owner