Claes Oldenburg (american, B. 1929) Stuffed Chai : Lot 64050

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Claes Oldenburg (american, B. 1929) Stuffed Chai

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Description

CLAES OLDENBURG (American, b. 1929)
Stuffed Chair, Inscribed "desolate," Los Angeles, 1963/1972
Color offset lithograph and transparent acetate sheet
6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Ed. 26/100
Initialled lower right and numbered in pencil
Published by Petersburg Press, London

LITERATURE:
Claes Oldenburg, Notes in Hand, New York, 1970 (original drawing illustrated no. 5). Text: "One of many images of disconnection collected during my first visit to Los Angeles. Studies like these led to the Bedroom Ensemble, 1963."
Axsom, 78.5

NOTE:
Text "desolate" is printed on a transparent acetate sheet that overlays the image

Alternate Artist Spellings: "Claes Oldenburg", "Oldenburg, Claes", "Oldenburg, Claes Thure"