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
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
Fabrication Study for the Giant Soft Fan, New York, 1967, Lithograph, Portfolio
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Milano, IT
Claes Oldenburg
Fabrication Study for the Giant Soft Fan, New York, 1967
From the Notes in Hand portfolio
1972
Offset lithograph
14.8 x 10.4 cm (plate)
25 x 20 cm (paper)
cm. 52 ...
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
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Lithograph
Child's Hot Water Bottle, London, 1968, Lithograph, Portfolio
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Milano, IT
Claes Oldenburg
Child's Hot Water Bottle, London, 1968
From the Notes in Hand portfolio
1972
Offset lithograph
14.8 x 10.4 cm (plate)
25 x 20 cm (paper)
cm. 52 x 47 (Frame)
Penci...
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
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Lithograph
Designs for a Cat Carrier, Provincetown, 1960, Lithograph, Portfolio
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Milano, IT
Claes Oldenburg
Designs for a Cat Carrier, Provincetown, 1960
From the Notes in Hand portfolio
1972
Offset lithograph
14.8 x 10.4 cm (plate)
25 x 20 cm ...
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1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Lithograph
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.
Category
1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
Screen, Rag Paper
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
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
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
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
lithograph
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. From the "In Memory of My Feelings" portfolio, printed in 1967 on Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper in a limited edition of 2500 and published in New York by The Muse...
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1960s Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
Lithograph
"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
Materials
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...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Screen
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
Materials
Felt Pen, Permanent Marker
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...
Category
1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic
Claes Oldenburg "Ice Bag" Lithograph of Sculpture Pop Art
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Detroit, MI
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
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
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
Materials
Board, Color, Lithograph
Rolling Collar and Tie (Axsom/Platzker 259)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg
Rolling Collar and Tie (AXSOM/PLATZKER 259), 1995
Color lithograph on rice paper
Edition of 52
Pencil signed and numbered on the front
Measurements:
Framed:
40 x 29.7...
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1990s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
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
Parade of Women, from the Deluxe (Signed) Edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio
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
Edition 85/100
Hand-signed by Claes Oldenburg on the lower right front; numbered 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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Lithograph
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
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
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
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
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, Oldenbur...
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1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
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Lithograph
"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
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
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
Injun Foster
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Edition size: 150
Signed
Category
20th Century Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Other Medium
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
Materials
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
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
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
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
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
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
Materials
Screen
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.
Category
1980s Modern Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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 1/2 in.
Edition of 50
Signed and ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Aluminum
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...
Category
1960s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1970s Pop Art Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Claes Oldenburg Art
Materials
Lithograph
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