Lot 201
  • 201

Claes Oldenburg

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Claes Oldenburg
  • Notes (Axsom & Platzker 55)
  • Lithograph printed in colors
  • sheets: 22 3/4 by 15 3/4 in. (57.6 by 40.0 cm.)
the complete portfolio, comprising 12 lithographs printed in colors, each signed, dated and numbered 28/100 in pencil, 1968, on Rives BFK paper, with the blindstamp and inkstamp (verso) of the printer and publisher, Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles, contained in the original cloth-covered box and slipcase (12 prints)

Provenance

Ex coll. David Whitney
Purchased by the present owner, Sotheby’s New York, November 16, 2006 

David Whitney, a friend of Claes Oldenburg as well as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and numerous other luminary artists in the second half of the 20th Century, was regarded as a discriminating collector whose ownership of a work underscored its importance.

Condition

The prints are in good condition, the full sheets with fresh colors. (The slipcase and portfolio box with minor surface soiling a wear.)
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