Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Bacon and Egg
initialed and dated 'C.O. 1961' lower left--initialed and dated again 'C.O. 1961' on the reverse--enamel on plaster and muslin over wire mesh 42½ x 35 x 6½in. (108 x 88.8 x 16.5cm.)
Bacon and Egg
initialed and dated 'C.O. 1961' lower left--initialed and dated again 'C.O. 1961' on the reverse--enamel on plaster and muslin over wire mesh 42½ x 35 x 6½in. (108 x 88.8 x 16.5cm.)
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Leon Kraushaar, New York.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt.
Leon Kraushaar, New York.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt.
Literature
D. Herzka, Pop Art One, New York 1965, no. 12 (illustrated).
J. Rublowsky, Pop Art, New York 1965, p. 187 (illustrated).
K. K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart 1982, p. 175, no. 416 (illustrated).
J. Rublowsky, Pop Art, New York 1965, p. 187 (illustrated).
K. K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart 1982, p. 175, no. 416 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Ray Gun Manufacturing Company, The Store, Dec. 1961-Jan. 1962, no. 30.
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Düsseldorf, Stadtisches Kunsthalle; Bern, Kunsthalle, Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher, March-Oct. 1969, p. 90 (illustrated).
Cologne, Museen der Stadt, Westkunst: Contemporary Art since 1939, May-Aug. 1981, p. 453, no. 648 (illustrated).
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Düsseldorf, Stadtisches Kunsthalle; Bern, Kunsthalle, Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher, March-Oct. 1969, p. 90 (illustrated).
Cologne, Museen der Stadt, Westkunst: Contemporary Art since 1939, May-Aug. 1981, p. 453, no. 648 (illustrated).