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Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Claes Oldenburg

Soft Switches

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:51 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Claes Oldenburg

1929 - 2022

 

Soft Switches 

vinyl filled with Dacron and canvas 

45 ¾ by 46 ¼ by 15 ½ in.

116.2 by 117.5 by 39.4 cm.

Executed in 1964/69. 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist)

William J. Hokin, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1982)

Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, 14 May 2001, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Edward Tyler Nahem, New York

Enron Corporation, Houston

Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 15 May 2003, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat, Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Revolution: Art of the Sixties, from Warhol to Beuys, 1995, illustrated, no. 121, p. 220, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, (and traveling), Donald Judd, London 2004, fig. 16, p. 57, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, 2012, p. 179, illustrated in color and p. 289, illustrated in color (with the artist in progress)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art, April - June 1985, p. 98, illustrated in color

New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, César in Context, May - July 2016, p. 13, illustrated in color, p. 19 (text) and pp. 89, 91, illustrated in color (in installation)

New York, Luxembourg + Co, Art Handling: An Installation Play by Liz Magic Laser, May - June 2024