Study for Baseball Offset Print, Pop Art, 1976, Edition of 1000

1976

Paper Size: 39.5 x 26 inches ( 100.33 x 66.04 cm ) Image Size: 39.5 x 26 inches ( 100.33 x 66.04 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age Supplemental...

Paper Size: 38.5 x 20 inches ( 97.79 x 50.8 cm ) Image Size: 38.5 x 20 inches ( 97.79 x 50.8 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Double Punching Bag is a lithogra...

Paper Size: 28.5 x 21 inches ( 72.39 x 53.34 cm ) Image Size: 20 x 15 inches ( 50.8 x 38.1 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...

Paper Size: 42 x 28 inches ( 106.68 x 71.12 cm ) Image Size: 42 x 28 inches ( 106.68 x 71.12 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional D...

This work is a study for Inverted Q, a large sculpture that Oldenburg created after producing many sketches and small models. At the time he was experimenting with concepts of monume...

Study for Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground, 1975 Lithograph, soft-ground etching, and aquatint in six colors on cream, thick, slightly textured Rive BFK paper 14 × 11 in. / 35.2 × 28 cm Signed and dated in pencil, lower right, numbered in pencil, lower left. Edition of 100 with 20 AP. Printed by Bill Law, Winston Roeth and Allan Uglow at Petersburg Press...

Claes Oldenberg (1929-2022) is a Swedish-born American artist, renowned for his contribution to Pop art by way of his iconic soft sculptures and public installations. In 1962, Olden...

This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style, 1965, ball-point pen on paper, 20 x 40 in. / 60 x 101.6 cm. *This print was etched in six gorgeous inks, each in an edition of ten: take your pick of color!* Oldenburg had an interest in imaginary monuments: he famously conceptualized works such as “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 which imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...