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132. Claes Oldenburg
b. 1929
Fagend Study stamped with the artist’s initials, title, number and date ‘CO. 14/24 COPYRIGHT © 1976 CLAES OLDENBURG FAGEND STUDY, 1968 FABRICATED BY LIPPINCOTT INC.’ on the tip of the flter cast aluminium hand painted with enamel 25.4 x 50.8 x 16.5 cm (10 x 20 x 6 1/2 in.) Conceived in 1968, this work was cast in 1976 and is number 14 from an edition of 24. Estimate £30,000-50,000 $37,800-63,100 €34,000-56,700 ‡ plus Buyers Premium and VAT*
Provenance Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977
Exhibited New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, 6 - 27 November 1976, no. 13 (another example exhibited) Helsinki, Galerie Kajforsblom, Celebrating Leo Castelli and Pop Art, 12 March - 14 April 1988, p. 19 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, Pop Art Design, 2012, p. 148 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Literature Claes Oldenburg, Photo Log May 1974 - August 1976, exh. cat., Stuttgart, 1976, no. 90-97, 160 and 161, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated, n.p.) Claes Oldenburg, Press Log May 1974 - August 1974, exh. cat., Stuttgart, 1976, pp. 5 and 20 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 20) Sylvia Lord, ed., Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, 2007, p. 164 (another example illustrated)