Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)

Colossal Typewriter Eraser Reclining on Alcatraz Island

Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Colossal Typewriter Eraser Reclining on Alcatraz Island
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'CO 71' (lower right)
wax crayon, graphite and watercolor on paper
9 x 11 5/8 in. (22.8 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed in 1971.
Provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1972
Exhibited
Stanford Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, p. 31, no. 48.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 326 and 379, no. 214, pl. 192 (illustrated).

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