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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Claes Oldenburg

Clothespin—45 Foot Version (Model)

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Claes Oldenburg

(1929 - 2022)


Clothespin45 Foot Version (Model)

stamped with the signature Claes Oldenburg, title and foundry mark (on the base)

Cor-Ten, stainless steel and steel 

61 by 20 by 22 ½ in.  154.9 by 50.8 by 57.2 cm.

Executed in 1976-79. This work is unique.

The Pace Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above by 1995)

PaceWildenstein, New York

The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas (acquired from the above by 1998)

PaceWildenstein, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1999 by the present owner

New York, PaceWildenstein, Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Large-Scale Projects: Drawings and Sculpture, 1994-95, p. 237, illustrated (with the artist at Lippincott Foundry in 1976 (in progress))

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; London, Hayward Gallery, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, 1995-96, no. 219, p. 384, illustrated in color

Las Vegas, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, 1998, p. 214, illustrated in color; pp. 215-19

Johnathan D. Lippincott, Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s, New York 2010, illustrated (inside front cover) and p. 190, illustrated (with the artist at Lippincott Foundry in 1976)