Lot 217
  • 217

Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen

Estimate
140,000 - 180,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen
  • Golf/Typhoon
  • stamped with the title, date 1996 and number A.P. on the base
  • acrylic urethane enamel on bronze and aluminum
  • 62 by 21 by 19 in. 157.5 by 53.3 by 48.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1996, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

PaceWildenstein, New York
Private Collection, New York

Exhibited

New York, PaceWildenstein, Sculpture, September - October 1998
Venice, Museo Correr, Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen, May - October 1999
New York, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Molded, Folded & Found, October - December 2008, p. 19, illustrated
Düsseldorf, Galerie Hans Mayer, Spatsommer in der Clarissenstrasse, September 2009
Seoul, PKM Trinity Gallery, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, November 2012 - January 2013, cat. no. 5, p. 55 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Germano Celant, Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen, Milan 1999, pp. 73, 484-487 and 518, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Waddington Galleries, Double Vision: The Poetic Focus of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 2007, no. 25, p. 51, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Under close inspection, there are scattered, minor and unobtrusive light scratches visible along the base. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. All of the elements are stable and secure. Under close inspection, there is some cracking to the paint covering the bolts, some of which have become exposed, and there are a few scattered drip accretions visible on some of the clubs.
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Catalogue Note

"Unquestionably, part of Oldenburg’s intention is to foil the literal minded. He is no naive simpleton, but a complex artist who seeks to exploit as fully as possible the various levels of meaning—subject, content, and form—available to any work of art. The constant pressure applied to each of these kinds of visual 'meaning' and the interrelationships among them, provide the special tension and excitement of his work."

Barbara Rose, Claes Oldenburg, New York 1976, p. 13