LOT DETAILS

Materials:

plaster and enamel paint

Measurements:

43.39 in. (110.20 cm.) (height) by 32.36 in. (82.20 cm.) (width) by 5.51 in. (14.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the artist's initials and dated 'C.O. 1961' (verso)

Exhibited:

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1963, May-August 1963, p. 79 (illustrated). Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters, The Spirit of Modernism, February-April 1984, p. 92 (illustrated in color). London, The Mayor Gallery, American Paintings with Chinese Furniture, May-June 1987. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, March-November 2000, pp. 202-205 and 294, no. 52 (illustrated in color). Seattle Art Museum, Pop Departures, September 2014-January 2015, pp. 47 and 102 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

"New Talent USA; Sculpture," Art in America, vol. 50, no. 1, 1962, p. 33 (illustrated). Claes Oldenburg, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1970, p. 77 (illustrated in color). D. Miller, Americans 1942-1963: Six Group Exhibitions, New York, 1972, pp. 79 and 110 (illustrated). Claes Oldenburg, exh. cat., Tokyo, Minami Gallery, 1973, n.p. (illustrated). American Renewal, New York, 1981, p. 11 (illustrated). K. L. Housley, Emily Hall Tremaine: Collector on the Cusp, Meriden, 2001, pp. 92, 207 and 210 (installation view illustrated in color). D. Ngo, ed., Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence, San Francisco, 2006, n.p. (installation view illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Green Gallery, New York, 1961 Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Meriden, 1961 Gagosian Gallery, New York, circa 1984 Philip Johnson, New York The Mayor Gallery, London, 1987 Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1987