Claes Oldenburg

Property from the Estate of Lois Frankel, Texas 

Claes Oldenburg

b. 1929

London Knees

signed in pencil Oldenburg and numbered 46/120 (on the justification page); each knee with the printed initials CO and dated 66 (on the underside)

The pair of cast flexible latex sculptures coated in polyurethane, lacking the acrylic plastic base, with accompanying set of three folders containing postcards and reproductions related to The Knees as London Monument Project, with justification, all contained in the original buckram-covered travelling case with printed title and date.

each knee height: 14⅝ in. (37.1 cm.)

overall: 7½ by 16⅝ by 11⅜ in. (19 by 42.4 by 29 cm.)

Executed in 1966; this example is number 46 from the edition of 120 plus ten artist's proofs, published by Editions Alecto Ltd.