Collection of Celeste and Armand Bartos
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Geometric Mouse--Scale B
Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Geometric Mouse--Scale B
stamped with signature, number and date 'GM-B 14/18 (c) COPYRIGHT CLAES OLDENBURG 1971' (on a small circular element)
polyurethane enamel on aluminum, steel hinges and brass chains
dimensions variable, approximately: 43 x 43 x 25 in. (109.2 x 109.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Executed in 1970-1972. This work is number fourteen from an edition of eighteen.
Geometric Mouse--Scale B
stamped with signature, number and date 'GM-B 14/18 (c) COPYRIGHT CLAES OLDENBURG 1971' (on a small circular element)
polyurethane enamel on aluminum, steel hinges and brass chains
dimensions variable, approximately: 43 x 43 x 25 in. (109.2 x 109.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Executed in 1970-1972. This work is number fourteen from an edition of eighteen.
Provenance
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Work by Claes Oldenburg, November 1970 (another example exhibited).
Pasadena Art Museum; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley; Kansas City, Museum of Fine Arts; Forth Worth Art Center Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Claes Oldenburg: Object Into Monument, December 1971-February 1973, no. 60 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: Works in Edition, 1971, no. 42 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oldenburg: Six Times, 1975, p. 16, no. 9 (another example exhibited).
Amherst, University of Massachusetts, Artist as Fabricator, 1975 (another example exhibted).
Cincinatti, Carl Solway Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: A Complete Survey of Sculptures in Edition 1963-1990, no. 28 (another example exhibited).
Cleveland, BP Building, Larger than Life: Monument Proposals by Claes Oldenburg and Large-scale Outdoor Sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1991 (another example exhibited).
Bremen, Neues Museum, Claes Oldenburg: Geometrische Mäse and vieles mehr...Multiples, Objekte, Zeichnungen, 1993, no. 9 (another example exhibited).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and London, Hayward Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, February 1995-August 1996 (another example exhibited).
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, February-May 2012, (another example exhibited).
Pasadena Art Museum; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley; Kansas City, Museum of Fine Arts; Forth Worth Art Center Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Claes Oldenburg: Object Into Monument, December 1971-February 1973, no. 60 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: Works in Edition, 1971, no. 42 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oldenburg: Six Times, 1975, p. 16, no. 9 (another example exhibited).
Amherst, University of Massachusetts, Artist as Fabricator, 1975 (another example exhibted).
Cincinatti, Carl Solway Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: A Complete Survey of Sculptures in Edition 1963-1990, no. 28 (another example exhibited).
Cleveland, BP Building, Larger than Life: Monument Proposals by Claes Oldenburg and Large-scale Outdoor Sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1991 (another example exhibited).
Bremen, Neues Museum, Claes Oldenburg: Geometrische Mäse and vieles mehr...Multiples, Objekte, Zeichnungen, 1993, no. 9 (another example exhibited).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and London, Hayward Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, February 1995-August 1996 (another example exhibited).
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, February-May 2012, (another example exhibited).
Sale Room Notice
Please note the following provenance on this work:
Margo Leavin Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975
Margo Leavin Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975
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