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Artist:
Claes Oldenburg, American, b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1929–2022  Search this
Medium:
Canvas, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, wood, plaster, foam, and metal
Dimensions:
86 1/4 × 38 × 30 in. (219.1 × 96.5 × 76.2 cm); base: 90 × 18 in. (228.6 × 45.7 cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
1966
Provenance:
Christie's, New York, Sale Number 8906,12 May 1988, Lot 5
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1998
Exhibition History:
PULITZER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, St. Louis. "Water, Harmony and Angst," 20 July 2007-5 January 2008.
MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG WIEN, MUMOK, Vienna. Claes Oldenburg, 3 February-27 May 2012, color ill. p. 167. TOUR: MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne, 22 June-30 September 2012; GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, 30 October 2012-17 February 2013; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 9 April-4 August 2013.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
Published References:
FRANCIS, RICHARD et al. Painting, Object, Film, Concept: Works from the Herbig Collection (New York: Christie's, 1988), pp. 9, 170, ill. p. 172.
UNSIGNED. "Acquisitions," Museums Washington (May 1999), p. 45.
RICHARD, PAUL. "From the Collection: Washington's Prized Possessions," Washington Post (19 December 2004), ill. p. N6.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 190, p. 211.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1998
Accession Number:
98.14
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School:
Pop Art (American)
Data Source:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py24ea0c06f-f4e4-48ad-9fd8-2d1bb4e438d6
EDAN-URL:
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