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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.
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
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).
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).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Deuningen; Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Mailand, Palazzo Reale; Kunsthalle Basel, Metamorphose des Dinges, p. 136 (illustrated).