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Claes OldenburgStudy for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg1975
1975
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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, 1965, ball-point pen on paper, 20 x 40 in. / 60 x 101.6 cm.
Oldenburg had an interest in imaginary monuments: he famously conceptualized works such as “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 which imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank – floating in London’s river Thames, regulating the flow of water usually controlled by the tide, and blocking maritime traffic.
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style, 1975.
Etching on white, thick, lightly textured (2) Wookey Hole hand-made paper
Plate: 25½ × 32 ½ in. / 64.8 x 82.9 cm Sheet: 37¾ x 41¾ in. / 94.5 x 106 cm
Edition of 60 with 12 Artist’s Proofs (2 copies in each of all six colors. Includes 10 prints in each of 6 different ink colors: Indigo blue, Mauve, Burnt sienna, Astral blue, Yellow-ochre, Vermilion) Signed in graphite, lower right, dated in pencil, lower right, numbered in graphite, lower left; copyright blind stamp, lower right. Printed by Maurice Payne at Petersburg Press, London. Published by Petersburg Press, London and New York.
Condition: Some wear on paper edges, various small creases, and waviness/aging of paper tone commensurate with age
Catalogue reference: Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996 Hudson Hills Press in association with Madison Art Center Wisconsin, New York, 1997. Illustrated no. 122
Literature: Boorsch. Suzanne. "New Editions: Claes Oldenburg.” Art News 74. no. 7 (September 1975). P. 51; Frackman. Noel. "Review: Oldenburg at Petersburg Press.”
Arts Magazine 50, no. 3 (November 1975), pp. 13-14; Drawings—Stedelijk, pp. 49; Drawings—Pompidou, p. 49
Exhibition History: Oldenburg: New Editions (1975)
- Creator:Claes Oldenburg (1929, American, Swedish)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 37.75 in (95.89 cm)Width: 41.75 in (106.05 cm)
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- Condition:Some wear on paper edges, various small creases, and waviness/aging of paper tone commensurate with age.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1211214489742
Claes Oldenburg
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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