Sale 5246
London, South Kensington
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29 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 312
Estimate
Claes Oldenburg (B. 1929) Proposal for a Colossal Structure in the Form of a Clothespin - compared to Brancusi's 'Kiss' (Axsom & Platsker 103) screenprint in colours, 1972, on cream Arches, signed in pencil, numbered 35/200 (there were also 20 hors commerce copies), published by the Frinds of the P hiladelphia Museum of Modern Art, with margins, light- and mount-staining, trimmed 10 mm. at the bottom, a moisture stain at the lower sheet edge, pale scattered foxing in the margins L. 545 x 350 mm., S. 750 x 545 mm.
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