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Lot 255
  • 255

Claes Oldenburg

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Claes Oldenburg
  • Typewriter
  • signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 1963

  • watercolour and pencil on paper
  • 28 by 35cm.; 11 by 13 3/4 in.

Provenance

Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Stockholm (acquired in the early 1970s)

Exhibited

London, The Tate Gallery; Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Claes Oldenburg,1970, p. 56, no. 61 (London), p. 51. no. 58 (Amsterdam), illustrated
Malmö, Malmö Konsthall, Claes Oldenburg, 1989 

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the paper tone tends more towards cream in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached to the backing mount at intervals on the reverse. There is very light time staining along all four extreme edges and some very faint handling creases along the horizontal edges. The top edge of the sheet is slightly uneven.
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