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Everything Becomes Abstract: Works from an Esteemed Private Collection
CLAES OLDENBURG (1929-2022)
Pool Ball Breasts
Details
CLAES OLDENBURG (1929-2022)
Pool Ball Breasts
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'CO 65-71' (lower edge)
watercolor, wax crayon, graphite and printed paper collage on paper
11 3⁄8 x 12 5⁄8 in. (28.9 x 32.1 cm.)
Executed in 1965-1971.
Pool Ball Breasts
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'CO 65-71' (lower edge)
watercolor, wax crayon, graphite and printed paper collage on paper
11 3⁄8 x 12 5⁄8 in. (28.9 x 32.1 cm.)
Executed in 1965-1971.
Provenance
Collection of the artist and Coosje van Bruggen
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016
Literature
W. Olander, "Claes Oldenburg," Arts Magazine, vol. 52, no. 2, October 1977, p. 2.
Exhibited
Pasadena Art Museum, Claes Oldenburg: Object Into Monument, December 1971-February 1972, pp. 102-103 (illustrated; titled Photos of Breasts Arranged as Pool Balls; dated 1971).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Claes Oldenburg: Tekeningen, aquarellen en grafiek, April-December 1977, pp. 42 and 59, no. 80 (illustrated; titled Pool Ball Breasts (second version); dated 1966-1971).
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, November-December 2015.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Claes Oldenburg: Tekeningen, aquarellen en grafiek, April-December 1977, pp. 42 and 59, no. 80 (illustrated; titled Pool Ball Breasts (second version); dated 1966-1971).
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, November-December 2015.
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