Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
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

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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.
Provenance
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
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).

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