Pair of lithographs on wove paper
USA, 1989-1997
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) – American Conceptual and Pop artist
‘Soft-Pencil Sharpener’ signed and dated in pencil, numbered ‘AP XIII/XVI’
‘Notebook torn in half’ signed with the artist’s initials in pencil and numbered ‘WKSHP 2/2’
(i) Published by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Axsom & Platzker 206
Each with full margins
(i) Dimensions: 31 ½ x 41 ¼ in. (80 x 104.8 cm.)
(ii) Dimensions: 25 ½ x 22 in. (64.8 x 55.9 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $1,000-$1,400

Claes Oldenburg (American, b. 1929)

Perhaps the best-loved artist of the Pop Art movement, Claes Oldenburg is known for his playfully surreal sculptures that find new meaning in the everyday objects by expanding them to a gargantuan scale or deflating them into floppy, funny shells. A onetime journalist and illustrator in Chicago, Oldenburg fell in with Pop— a vernacular approach to art that mocked the somber bravado of Abstract Expressionism—after moving to New York in 1956. But whereas artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein took popular media as their inspiration, Oldenburg found his muse in hamburgers, electric fans, bagels, and other familiar comforts. His works can be found in institutions worldwide, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Condition

“Notebook torn in half” with minor rippling in extreme right margin. Each in overall good condition.

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