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Sketch for a Memorial to Simon Rodia: Banana Cream Pie over the Watts Tower
Details
Claes Oldenburg (B. 1929)
Sketch for a Memorial to Simon Rodia: Banana Cream Pie over the Watts Tower
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Simon Rodia Mm. 63 CO' (lower edge)
watercolor and wax crayon on paper
14 x 16 ¾ in. (35.6 x 42.5 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Sketch for a Memorial to Simon Rodia: Banana Cream Pie over the Watts Tower
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Simon Rodia Mm. 63 CO' (lower edge)
watercolor and wax crayon on paper
14 x 16 ¾ in. (35.6 x 42.5 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Provenance
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Massachusetts, 1971
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 9 September 2008, lot 211
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Massachusetts, 1971
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 9 September 2008, lot 211
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: The Alphabet in L.A., February-March 1975, no. 63.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Collects Yale, April-May 1993, p. 72 (illustrated).
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Collects Yale, April-May 1993, p. 72 (illustrated).
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