Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Proposed Monument for Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, in the Form of a Colossal Drum Pedal #2
Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Proposed Monument for Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, in the Form of a Colossal Drum Pedal #2
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'drum pedal CO. 1973' (lower edge); signed again and inscribed 'Oldenburg JAPAN' (underneath the mat)
watercolor, pastel, and graphite on paper
29 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (73.9 x 58.7 cm.)
Executed in 1973.
Proposed Monument for Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, in the Form of a Colossal Drum Pedal #2
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'drum pedal CO. 1973' (lower edge); signed again and inscribed 'Oldenburg JAPAN' (underneath the mat)
watercolor, pastel, and graphite on paper
29 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (73.9 x 58.7 cm.)
Executed in 1973.
Provenance
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974
Exhibited
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, June-July 1973, no. 20 (illustrated).
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Graphic Arts Council Members Exhibition, 1978.
Stanford Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 23 and 31, no. 49 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, p. 379, no. 215.
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Looking Back: 45 Years, October-December 2015, pp. 50-51 and 86 (illustrated).
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Graphic Arts Council Members Exhibition, 1978.
Stanford Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 23 and 31, no. 49 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, p. 379, no. 215.
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Looking Back: 45 Years, October-December 2015, pp. 50-51 and 86 (illustrated).
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