Lot 107
107
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Collection of Celeste and Armand Bartos
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)

Poster Study--'New Media, New Forms I,' Martha Jackson Gallery

Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Poster Study--'New Media, New Forms I,' Martha Jackson Gallery
signed with initials and dated 'C.O. 1960' (lower right)
gouache and printed paper collage on paper
23 x 18 5/8 in. (58.4 x 47.3 cm.)
Executed in 1960.
Provenance
Eleonore Riegelhaupt, Boston
Literature
G. Baro, Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints, London and New York, 1969, p. 241, no. 61.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Claes Oldenburg: Tekeningen, aquarellen en grafiek, 1977, p. 44, no. 20.

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Lot Essay

Claes Oldenburg created the drawing on the occasion of a seminal two-part exhibition "New Forms-New Media; New Media-New Forms in Painting and Sculpture version II" at the Martha Jackson Gallery in June and September-October 1960. The exhibition featured the works by Dada artists such as Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, and works by "neo-Dadaists" which was the label given to the new crop of artists like Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition eschewed conventional painting and sculpture and focused on constructions and assemblages.

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