Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen

PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired directly from the artists)
Acquired by the present owner from the above

New York, PaceWildenstein, Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen: Large-Scale Projects,  December 1994 - January 1995
Tokyo, Wildenstein & Co; Fukuoka, MoMA Contemporary, Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, Sculptures and Studies for Large-Scale Projects in Collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen,  March - June 1996
New York, PaceWildenstein, Summer In The City, June - September 2001

This work is in excellent overall condition. There are a few scattered pinpoint white accretions located on the base. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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The present work is a presentation model for the realised large-scale project Saw, Sawing, commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and installed at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Big Sight, in Ariake, Tokyo, in 1996. The concept was first realized in the cardboard 'Study for a Sculpture in the Form of a Saw, Cutting', produced in 1973.