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Claes Oldenburg Art

American, Swedish, 1929-2022

One of the original Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm. The son of a Swedish diplomat, he spent his early years in Stockholm and Oslo until the family moved to Chicago in 1937.

Oldenburg attended Yale University, then returned to Chicago, where he worked for a newspaper and also attended drawing classes at the Art Institute. He moved to New York in 1956.

Oldenburg’s early art in New York were works of urban realism in cardboard and paper that were influenced by the work of Dubuffet and the New Realists, and were seen as a brutal response to society. In 1961 Oldenburg rented a storefront on the Lower East Side and sold brightly painted plaster objects as well as three-dimensional and wall reliefs based on hamburgers, pastries, men's and women's clothing, and other commodities. The signature soft sculptures followed, objects of commonplace household objects made of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok. These pieces transformed the medium — the soft sculptures are intended to be sensual experiences and commentary on our material world of objects and our relationship to them.

In 1965, still working in vinyl, plaster and cardboard, Oldenburg began making large works termed “Colossal Monuments,” which are large public sculptures with public and private meanings. In the 1970s, Oldenburg was fabricating large-scale works in durable materials such as steel, and working with Coosje van Bruggen, he had received many such public commissions in the United States and Europe.

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Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Rolling Collar and Tie (Axsom/Platzker 259) iconic Pop Art lithograph Ed of 52
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Rolling Collar and Tie (AXSOM/PLATZKER 259), 1995 Color lithograph on rice paper Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 52 on the front Measureme...
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1990s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph, Pencil

The Soap at Baton Rouge 3-D Construction
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Artist: Claes Oldenburg Title: The Soap at Baton Rouge Edition: From the rare limited edition of 250 Medium: Cast resin, vinyl filled with aluminum silicate, screen-print on acetate ...
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1960s Claes Oldenburg Art

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Resin, Screen

Parade of Women, from Deluxe, Hand Signed, 85/100 1 Cent Life Portfolio, Framed
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Parade of Women from the Deluxe hand signed edition of 1 Cent Life Portfolio (Acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana), 1964 Color lithograph on wove paper Published by E.W. Kornfeld, Germany, Written by Walasse Ting, Edited by Sam Francis Hand-signed by Claes Oldenburg on the lower right front; numbered 85/100 on the colophon page a copy of which is affixed to the back of the frame -see photo Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in hand made museum frame with UV plexiglass, and colophon page with unique edition number affixed to the back. (see photos) This hand signed work is from the Deluxe hand signed edition of only 100 - not to be confused from the unsigned edition of 2000. (None of the works from the edition of 2000 were ever signed by Oldenburg.) Hand signed editions are rarely if ever seen on the marketplace. This original lithograph, splayed across two pages, is from the Deluxe edition of the legendary 1 Cent Life Portfolio, one of the most important and celebrated artistic collaborations of the 1960s. Chinese American artist and writer Walasse Ting, in collaboration with Sam Francis, assembled a group of the most significant Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists in America, including Pop Artist Claes Oldenburg, along with the European COBRA artists to create the definitive artistic portfolio, with text by Walasse Ting. The Deluxe edition, which features hand signed prints was published in a limited edition of only 100. This is one of them. Of the 100, editions numbered 60-100, or 40 portfolios, were reserved exclusively for Artists & Collaborators. This hand signed Claes Oldenburg lithograph...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Pencil, Lithograph

Ray Gun by Claes Oldenburg: screen print with raw black grey industrial texture
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Ray gun is one of Oldenburg’s most iconic motifs, and the artist’s tongue-in-cheek alter ego. Oldenburg took the name from a weapon used in the show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Screen

"Parade of Women" original lithograph
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1964 and published by Eberhard Kornfeld for the 1 Cent Life portfolio in an edition of 2000. Size: 16 1/4 x 22 3/4 inches (408 x 580 mm). Publ...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Claes Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg (Hand signed by Claes Oldenburg), 1992
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg (Hand signed by Claes Oldenburg), 1992 Softback catalogue with stiff wraps (hand signed by Claes Oldenburg hand signed by Claes Oldenburg on the half title page 11 3/...
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1990s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph, Paper, Offset, Mixed Media, Ink

ICE CREAM DESSERTS
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand initialed and numbered by the artist. Etching and aquatint in colors, on handmade paper. Image size: 13.5 X 21.25 in. Sheet size: 22.5 x 31.25 in. Framed. Edition of 50. Artwor...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Parade of Women, from One Cent Life
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Claes Oldenburg Title: Parade of Women Series: One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Initialled in Plate, lower right Dimensions: 16.25 x 23" Provenance: Private Collec...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Symbolic Self-Portrait with Equals
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color offset lithograph on white, thick, smooth Louvain Supreme Vellum Bristol 150-pound paper. Signed and numbered 190/300 in pencil. Printed by Color...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Vellum, Color, Lithograph, Offset

Proposal for a Broome Street Expressway in the Form of a Cigarette and Smoke
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...
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1970s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph on Arches Roll paper. Signed and numbered 25/35 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with the blind...
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1970s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Houseball with Fallen Toy Bear
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Houseball with Fallen Toy Bear, 2013 Color lithograph on Japanese watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 21/50 by Claes Oldenburg on the ...
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2010s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Colossal Flashlight in Place of Hoover Dam
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Lithograph printed in colors on Rives wove paper Signed in pencil Oldenberg (lower right); numbered 88/100 (lower left) 33 × 23 inches Unframed Executed in 1982, this...
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1980s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
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1970s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Claes Oldenburg mythological Erotic Fantasy Suite print set of 6 medusa mermaid
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
These erotic etchings depict mythological and fantasy creatures as striking nudes. A host of sensuous and shocking figures include a mermaid, Medusa, and women in both jubilant and p...
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1970s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, the Artist as Witness (21, Axsom/Platzker)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, the Artist as Witness Color Silkscreen with enamel inks on CM Fabriano cotton watermarked 100% rag paper Signed and numbered by the artist, front; bears distinctive blind stamp of the publisher, front; title and artist's copyright stamp on the back, APXII 28.5 x 20.75 inches Reference Axsom 76; Number 21 in "Printed Stuff : Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg : A Catalogue Raisonne 1958-1996" by Claes Oldenburg, Richard H. Axsom, David Platzker. New York / Madison, NY / WI : Hudson Hills Press / Madison Art Center, 1997, p Unframed Claes Oldenburg's 1962 "Striding Figure", a five-color silkscreen on watermarked 100% handmade rag paper, was proofed by the artist by hand in 1971 for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Screen, Rag Paper

Woman Entwined in Giant Electric Cord Claes Oldenburg Laocoon style pop art nude
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a woman peeks out from loops and knots of thick cord, a modern-day Laocoön and His Sons. She seem...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Aquatint, Etching

Study for Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q Above & Below Ground Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground, 1975 Lithograph, soft-ground etching, and aquatint in six colors on cream, thick, slightly textured Rive BFK paper 14 × 11 in. / 35.2 × 28 cm Signed and dated in pencil, lower right, numbered in pencil, lower left. Edition of 100 with 20 AP. Printed by Bill Law, Winston Roeth and Allan Uglow at Petersburg Press...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Figure and Phallus: erotic nude drawing of woman in heels in rainbow of colors
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This etching features a nude woman in high heels. Whipping her head to the left, she gazes intently past the viewer through a wild tangle of tresses. A sunhat with a bow nearly floats off her head, a tongue-in-cheek nod to modesty. Taking a wide stance, she straddles a comically large phallus, which springs up eagerly from the ground like a plant. Unusually, this etching was drawn directly onto the plate from the artist’s imagination and not from a life model. This spontaneity is visible around the woman’s bust and arms, where Oldenburg sketched several variations of her anatomy, giving the impression of a figure in movement. Beside her left breast, Oldenburg extends this halo of lines by cheekily doodling a small, floating phallus. Paper 36 x 27.5 in. / 91.4 x 69.2 cm. Plate 23.5 x 17.7 in. / 59.7 x 45.1 cm. Etching in one color on white, thick, slightly textured Wookey Hole handmade paper watermarked with the artist’s signature. Signed by the artist and dated 1975 lower right in pencil. The edition of 60 includes ten prints in each of six different ink colors: Indigo blue, vermilion, mauve, burnt sienna, astral blue, and yellow-ochre. A copy of each color is available: this listing is for one copy in the color of your choice. As recorded in the artist’s unpublished notes: “In 1974 an ambitious project for a suite of large-scale etchings was hatched with Paul Cornwall-Jones, for production by Maurice Payne in Petersburg Press’s new Pembroke studios in London. The project would consist of meticulous transcriptions of a certain group of drawings...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Lipstick Ascending the Caterpillar Tracks, plus Novum Organum No. 7, Yale Univ.
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Lipstick Ascending the Caterpillar Tracks (Print), plus Novum Organum No. 7, Yale University (broadside), 1969 Print is a Photo offset lithograph on two sided paper, plus separate broadside on offset lithograph Hand signed boldly in black marker and numbered 116 34 × 24 inches Published by Yale University, New Haven, CT Unframed Note: This print is THE original 1969 photolithograph - not to be confused with the poster or later editioned works created in the 1970s. See history below: This listing features 2 Elements: (1) A 2 sided photolithograph of the installation plans for Oldenburg's monumental lipstick sculpture...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Newsprint, Offset

"All Kinds of Love" original lithograph
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1964 and published by Eberhard Kornfeld for the 1 Cent Life portfolio in an edition of 2000. Image size: 11 x 10 inches. There is poetry text ...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Hanging woman (drawing) Claes Oldenburg marker portrait of upside down woman
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg framed drawing on matboard picturing a woman hanging from some kind of wire or rope, held up by a pulley. The Hanging Woman is a recurring motif in Oldenburg's work, ...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Felt Pen, Permanent Marker

Two Ray Guns
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Ray Guns" is a sculptural work by Claes Oldenburg. The work is signed on the verso "Claes Oldenburg". The framed wall sculpture measures 26 x 22 x 3 in. ...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Plaster, Acrylic Polymer

Claes Oldenburg "Ice Bag" Lithograph of Sculpture Pop Art
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Claes’ first kinetic sculpture, 1970, was “Ice Bag” rising in height from 7 to 16 feet with a diameter of 18 feet. He was interested in ice bags as a sculptural subject because of their compelling form. The surface wavers between rippled and smooth, hard and soft. This lithograph with blue and red crayon is a sketch of the “Ice Bag” sculpture and was created by Claes as a thank you gift for certain individuals. Eric Saarinin & Associates had rented an art studio to film Oldenburg sketching on its walls the genesis of the ice bag and his thoughts about the Icebag. When the owner of the studio returned and found his pristine walls covered with scrawls, he had a fit…until he understood the present value of that heavily marked, white expanse. They thought about how to remove the drawings. Well, it couldn’t be done, but they are preserved in the film directed by Michael Hugo and produced by Eric Saarinen. The Lithograph is printed by Kenneth Tyler, carries the blind stamp and is marked (Gem.II), G.E.L. It is numbered 2 of 26, dated and signed by Oldenburg and owned by Eric Saarinen who received it as a gift from Claes. Unframed it measures 16 1/8 x 22 5/16. Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, but because of his father’s diplomatic career he lived most of his life in the states mainly New York and California. He attended Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Oldenburg became associated with the pop art movement and created many happenings, that were so popular in the late 1960s and thru the 1970s. They were performance art related productions. The name he gave to his own productions was "Ray Gun “Theater”. The cast of colleagues who appeared in his performances included artists: Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselmann, Carolee Schneemann...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Fire Plug Souvenir - "Chicago August 1968" (P. 10), Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Claus Oldenburg (1929) Title: Fire Plug Souvenir - "Chicago August 1968" (P. 10) Year: 1968 Medium: Cast plaster multiple with acrylic paint Ed...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Acrylic, Plaster

Stars (Cat. Raisonne Ref: 29, Axsom & Platzker, 1997)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Stars (Cat. Raisonne Ref: 29, Axsom & Platzker, 1997), 1963 Letterpress in 1 colour over stock offset lithograph "rainbow roll" in 3 colours on wood board 28 × 22 inches Published by Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Printed by Globe Poster, Baltimore An extremely rare and important piece of Pop Art history - and a must have for collectors of Oldenburg's work. This historic poster was published on the occasion of the performance "Stars: A Farce for Objects" at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., April 24 and 25, 1963. It was one of the earliest "Happenings" - done by Claes Oldenburg. D.C. might have seemed an unlikely venue, but it was during the idealistic and arts friendly Kennedy era - seven full months before the President's shocking assassination. Oldenburg was invited by Alice Denney, the assistant director of the fledgling Washington Gallery of Modern Art, for The Pop Art Festival she was organizing alongside her pioneering show of Pop Art, “The Popular Image Exhibition,” which opened in April 1963. It included a lecture/tape recorder performance by John Cage and a multi-ring dance event organized by Billy Kluver and featuring Yvonne Rainer...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Board, Color, Lithograph

Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas (Hand Signed by Oldenburg)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas (Hand Signed), 2003 Offset Lithograph poster. Hand signed by Claes Oldenburg 23 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches Exceedingly rare when hand signed. This offset lithograph poster was created on the occasion of the Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Offset

Fagends Carved in Rock, De-Accessioned from the Denver Art Museum
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Fagends Carved in Rock, De-Accessioned from the Denver Art Museum (137, Axsom and Platzker), 1975 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed and numbere...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Offset, Graphite, Lithograph

Study of a Monument
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Claes Oldenberg (1929-2022) is a Swedish-born American artist, renowned for his contribution to Pop art by way of his iconic soft sculptures and public installations. In 1962, Olden...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Figure & Phallus II
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Figure & Phallus II, 1975 Etching on Wookey Hole hand-made paper 25 × 20 inches Edition of 60 Hand signed, dated and numbered from the limited edition of 60 on the re...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Geometric Mouse
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Claes Oldenberg (b.1929) is a Swedish-born American artist, renowned for his contribution to Pop art by way of his iconic soft sculptures and public installations. In 1962, Oldenburg debuted his revolutionary soft sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York. Three giant, squishy sculptures of an ice cream cone, a hamburger, and a slice of cake, swelled across the gallery floor, forever changing the way we define sculpture. It has been noted that Oldenburg's early work was largely inspired by Yayoi Kusama's hand-sewn phallic-shaped soft sculptures that enveloped the surfaces of ironing boards, sofas, and boats. Click here to see an exhibition poster featuring a later example of Kusama's soft sculptures. Ranging from voluminous hamburgers (famously on display at the AGO) to ballistic badminton shuttlecocks, Oldenberg's colossal sculptures replicate commonplace objects on a grand scale, often disrupting the environment they inhibit with curious and playful subtexts. The confrontational nature of Oldenberg's sculptures places an emphasis on the viewer, asking us to reconsider our relationship to these recognizable, but obscure, objects. "Geometric Mouse...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Miniature Soft Drum Set
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information: Claes Oldenburg Miniature Soft Drum Set 1969 The complete set of 9 sewn screenprinted elements on canvas, some with washline, wood, plastic buttons, rope, metal eye screws and spray enamel with wood base covered with screenprinted paper in colors 9 3/4 x 19 x 13 3/4 in. Artist's Proof - A.P. XVI Initialed and numbered in black ink on the bass drum...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Mixed Media

"The Soft Screws" Print by Claes Oldenburg Published by Gemini G.E.L
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Pasadena, CA
This print sits in its original chrome frame and it is numbered 7/26 but not signed since each image has been cut out from a sheet to fit in the little windows. Gemini G.E.L is an ar...
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Mid-20th Century Conceptual Claes Oldenburg Art

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Steel

Boot Fairy (unique) Claes Oldenburg cowgirl cowboy boots nude erotic etching
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This playful, erotic print by Claes Oldenburg is printed in shimmering gold. A nude woman in outsized cowboy boots stands with hands on hips, an X scribbled on either side of her torso. Wild lines radiating from the crown of her head form a wide hat...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Bust (Mauve): Erotic drawing of nude bound woman
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Printed in rich astral blue, this etching depicts a nude woman from the waist up. Emerging from her cupid’s-bow lips, the tip of a phallus imitates a ball gag, and across her chest, ...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Boot Fairy (unique) Claes Oldenburg (First state color 4) copper metallic
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A unique, unpublished print by Claes Oldenburg. This playful, erotic print is printed in shimmering gold. A nude woman in outsized cowboy boots stands with hands on hips, an X scribbled on either side of her torso. Wild lines radiating from the crown of her head form a wide hat...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Figure in Skirt Claes Oldenburg playful erotic nude etching in rainbow of color
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A woman in slip-on heels leans languidly on a cloud-like phallus defined with loose, sketched lines. Gazing dreamily past the viewer, the topless woman dons a diaphanous tutu, and at...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Two Profiles Claes Oldenburg playful erotic etching in rainbow of color
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Image 19.75 x 26.3 in. / 50 x 67 cm Paper 27.25 x 36 in./ 69.2 x 91.4 cm Etching in one color on white, thick, slightly textured Wookey Hole handmade paper watermarked with artist’s...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching, Aquatint

THE LETTER Q AS BEACH HOUSE, WITH SAILBOAT
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Portland, ME
Oldenburg, Claes. THE LETTER Q AS BEACH HOUSE, WITH SAILBOAT. Axsom 96, Gemini 416. Lithograph in fifteen colors, 1972. Edition of 100, plus 12 artist's proofs and 19 other proofs. Initialed and numbered 36/100 in pencil. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with its blindstamp, and with its ink stamp, verso. 39 x 29 1/2 inches, 990 x 749 mm. (sheet). Printed from aluminum plates on Arjomari paper by Ken Tyler...
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1970s Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

Figure Looking through Legs Claes Oldenburg nude etching of woman in skirt
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Image 12.5 x 9.3 in. / 31.7 x 23 cm Paper 25.3 x 19.75 in./ 65 x 50 cm Soft-ground etching and aquatint in two colors “à la poupée” on cream, thick, moderately textured Velin Arches...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Ice Cream Desserts (A) Claes Oldenburg dessert parfait etching in rainbow pastel
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
The painterly, multicolored effect of this pastel ice cream still life is achieved by printing “à la poupée”, in which multiple colors can be applied to the plate for printing at one time. Oldenburg first printed in brown, and for the second plate, freely applied yellow, green, purple, blue, and light purple, producing an array of loosely sketched pastel confections. Image 13.5 x 21.15 in. / 34.3 x 53.7 cm Paper 22.5 x 31.25 in. / 57 x 79.4 cm Soft-ground etching and aquatint in six colors “à la poupée” on cream, thick, slightly textured Arches paper. Signed by the artist with initials lower center in pencil, dated 1976 lower right in pencil, and annotated AP VIII/XII lower left in pencil. Ice cream is a subject Claes Oldenburg has returned to again and again: from monumental sculptures of ice cream cones, to plaster parfaits, to countless drawings and designs. On his soft sculptures, Oldenburg wrote: "Reversing the expectations of hard sculpture, these huge collapsing objects rely on gravity and chance for their final form." The drooping edges of his soft sculptures connect to the unpredictably melting surface of ice cream, which he has explored viscerally through his dripped plaster ice cream sculptures...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

Leaf Boat: Storm In the Studio for Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paolo
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leaf Boat: Storm In the Studio for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paolo, Brazil Claes Oldenburg (after), Swedish/American (1929) Date: 1993 Lithograph...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

"Prints: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts"
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg "Prints: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts" (Punching Bag) Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1967 Exhibition Poster 22 x 20 inches Signed
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1960s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

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Offset

Striding Figure from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness Portfolio
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Claes Oldenburg Title: Striding Figure from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness Portfolio Year: 1971 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Paper Size: ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Claes Oldenburg Art

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Screen

Study for Tongue Cloud, Claes Oldenburg surreal pop art landscape red and black
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg straddles the playful and the obscene in this colorful, spontaneous etching depicting an enormous tongue emerging from the clouds. When printing “à la poupée”, multip...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Etching

"School Bus Yellow, Adirondack Green, A Film by Coosje van Bruggen"
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen "School Bus Yellow, Adirondack Green, A Film by Coosje van Bruggen", 1982 Poster 33 x 23 inches Signed Poster by Cla...
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1980s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

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Offset

"20th Century Collage"
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg "20th Century Collage" Margo Leavin Gallery, 1991 Exhibition Poster 24 x 18 inches Signed This is an exhibition poster from "20th...
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1990s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

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Offset

TILTING NEON COCKTAIL
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Edition 28/50. Stainless Steel outline of cocktail glass on a black acrylic base with painted wood olive and toothpick.
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1980s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art

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Stainless Steel

Typewriter Eraser
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Claes Oldenberg Typewriter Eraser 1970 Lithograph 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Edition of 100 Pencil initialed, dated and numbered Acco...
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

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Lithograph

NOTES (KASSEL)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Sheet size 23 x 15 in. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable of...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Sailboat Thinking of Q
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Claes Oldenberg Sailboat Thinking of Q 1976 Offset lithograph and screenprint 15 3/4 x 12 in. Edition of 200 Pencil initialed and numbered ABOUT THE WORK Cla...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Dance Costume in the Form of Fag ends with Fallen Dancer
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Claes Oldenberg Dance Costume in the From of Fag Ends with Fallen Dancer 1972 Lithograph 17 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. Edition of 50 Pencil ...
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

Materials

Lithograph

Geometric Mouse Scale E 'Desktop'
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Claes Oldenburg Geometric Mouse Scale E 'Desktop' 2013 Painted aluminum sculpture on painted aluminum base 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/...
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2010s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Aluminum

Typewriter Eraser
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Claes Oldenburg Typewriter Eraser 1970 Graphite and watercolor on paper 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Pencil signed and dated Accompan...
Category

1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Claes Oldenburg Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle 1976 Glazed brown ceramic with mahogany base and sand 14 x 8 1/2 x d: 8 1/2 in. Edition of 36 Signed...
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1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art

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Ceramic

Fagends Carved in Rock, Fagend Canyon, Lithograph by Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Claes Oldenburg, Swedish/American (1929 - ) Title: Fagends Carved in Rock, Fagend Canyon (Axsom and Platzker 137) Year: 1975 Medium: Offset Lithograph on Wove paper, signe...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Claes Oldenburg Art

Materials

Lithograph

Screw Arch Bridge (State II)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Oldenburg was not really interested in making original prints until the late 70's when he went to Amsterdam and saw the prints of Rembrandt and Hercules Seghers...
Category

1980s Claes Oldenburg Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Claes Oldenburg art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Claes Oldenburg art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of orange, blue, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Claes Oldenburg in lithograph, etching, paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Pop Art style. Not every interior allows for large Claes Oldenburg art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Albert Al Hirschfeld, Larry Rivers, and Romare Bearden. Claes Oldenburg art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $150 and tops out at $120,000, while the average work can sell for $2,800.

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