
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Typewriter Eraser
Estimate
350,000 - 550,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Claes Oldenburg
1929 - 2022
Typewriter Eraser
stamped with the artist's name Oldenburg, title, date 1977 and number 18/18 (on the base); stamped with the artist's signature Oldenburg and number 18/18 (on the reverse)
acrylic on aluminum, stainless steel and ferro cement, on steel base
30 by 33 by 23 ¼ in. 76.2 by 83.8 by 59 cm.
Executed in 1977, this work is number 18 from an edition of 18 plus 5 artist’s proofs.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Estée Lauder Company, New York (acquired from the above in February 1981)
Acquired from the above in November 1995 by the present owner
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: An Exhibition of Recent Small Scale Fabricated Works and Drawings, 1977, no. 12 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Twentieth Century Sculpture: Process and Presence, 1983, p. 18, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Toledo Museum of Art, Citywide Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, 1984, no. 24, p. 39 illustrated (another example exhibited)
Cincinnati, Carl Solway Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: A Complete Survey of Sculptures in Edition 1963-1990, 1990, no. 22 (another example exhibited)
Madison, University of Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art, The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper, 1995, no. 44.11, p. 143, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Miami, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami Pops! Pop Art from Miami Collections, 1996, p. 27 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, 2002-03, p. 81, illustrated in color (present example exhibited)
Nashville, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Real Illusions: Contemporary Art from Nashville Collections, 2003, no. 33, p. 46, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Katherine Hinds, Contemporary Sculpture from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami, 1986, p. 106, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Suzanne McCullagh and François Borne, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Chicago, 2010, p. 169, no. 120, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Hannah W. Blunt and Fronia Simpson, eds., The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Waterville, 2013, p. 345, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
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