Lot 93
  • 93

Claes Oldenburg

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Claes Oldenburg
  • Watch in a red box
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 1961 on the reverse
  • muslin soaked in plaster overwire frame, painted with enamel, in 2 parts
  • 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 by 6 1/4 in.
  • 13.9 by 16.5 by 15.8 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany
Pace Gallery, New York
Taylor A. Smith & Edward B. Smith V, Pasadena
Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, New York
Private Collection

Exhibited

New York, Ray Gun Manufacturing Co., The Store, December 1961 - January 1962, lot 71
Cologne, Museum der Stadt, Westkunst: Contemporary Art Since 1939, June - August, 1981, cat. no. 666, p. 455, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance, 1958-1964, September - December, 1984, p. 69, illustrated
Barcelona. MACBA, Onnasch: Aspects of Contemporary Art, November 2001 - February 2002
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, February 1997 - March 2005, p. 318, illustrated
New York, Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: Early Work, October - December 2005, p. 59, illustrated

Literature

Kate Linker et al., Individuals: a Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Los Angeles, 1986, p. 318, illustrated
Ralph Herrmanns, 1900 Tablets Maleri, Sundyberg, 1994, p. 60, illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition and the elements are sound. There are a few scattered areas of paint loss throughout and a ½ inch chip with related loss along the watch band. The surface is slightly dusty.
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