Claes Oldenburg

M. Mouse (with) 1 Ear (equals) Tea Bag Blackboard Version

1973

Claes Oldenberg (b.1929) 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, Oldenburg debuted his revolutionary soft sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York. Three giant, squishy sculptures of an ice cream cone, a hamburger, and a slice of cake, swelled across the gallery floor, forever changing the way we define sculpture. It has been noted that Oldenburg's early work was largely inspired by Yayoi Kusama's hand-sewn phallic-shaped soft sculptures that enveloped the surfaces of ironing boards, sofas, and boats. Click here to see an exhibition poster featuring a later example of Kusama's soft sculptures. Ranging from voluminous hamburgers (famously on display at the AGO) to ballistic badminton shuttlecocks, Oldenberg's colossal sculptures replicate commonplace objects on a grand scale, often disrupting the environment they inhibit with curious and playful subtexts. The confrontational nature of Oldenberg's sculptures places an emphasis on the viewer, asking us to reconsider our relationship to these recognizable, but obscure, objects. "Geometric Mouse...

Artist: Claes Oldenburg Title: Notebook Torn in Half Medium: Lithograph Date: 1997 Edition: 97/97 Sheet Size: 25 1/2" x 22" Signature: Signed and numbered in pencil

Paper Size: 37.5 x 24 inches ( 95.25 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 37.5 x 24 inches ( 95.25 x 60.96 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: Offset lithograph in five colors on white, moderately thick, slightly textured paper. Edition of 1000. 100 copies signed and unnumbered, 900 copies unsigned and unnumbered. Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Massachusett's Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Published on the occasion of the one-man exhibition Claes Oldenburg: Six Themes at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Hayden Gallery...

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 Oldenburg Rolling Collar and Tie (AXSOM/PLATZKER 259), 1995 Color lithograph on rice paper Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 52 on the front Measureme...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Claes Oldenburg Geometric Mouse Scale E 'Desktop' 2013 Painted aluminum sculpture on painted aluminum base 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/...

Claes Oldenburg "Prints: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts" (Punching Bag) Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1967 Exhibition Poster 22 x 20 inches Signed

Claes Oldenburg Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, the Artist as Witness Color Silkscreen with enamel inks on CM Fabriano cotton watermarked 100% rag paper Signed and numbered by the ...

Claes Oldenburg’s 'Geometric Mouse, Scale C' (1971) exemplifies his playful yet thought-provoking approach to Pop Art by transforming an everyday object into a bold sculptural statem...