Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)

Study for a Sculpture in the Form of a Vacuum Cleaner- From Side

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Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Study for a Sculpture in the Form of a Vacuum Cleaner- From Side
signed with initials and dated 'C.O. 1964' (lower right)
chalk and watercolor on paper
40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66.1 cm.)
Executed in 1964.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
G. Baro, Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints, London, 1969, pp. 152-153, no. 192 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum and Gent, Sint Pietersabdij, Three Blind Mice, April-August 1968, (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and London, Tate Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, September 1969-July 1970.
Landesmuseum Munster, Everybody Knows, September-October 1972, no. 43.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Bonn, Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and London, Hayward Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, February 1995-August 1996, p. 198 (illustrated).
Sale room notice
Please note there is additional exhibition history for this work.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Deuningen; Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Mailand, Palazzo Reale; Kunsthalle Basel, Metamorphose des Dinges, p. 136 (illustrated).

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