Claes Oldenburg - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 17, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
    Malmberg International, Malmö, Sweden
    Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore
    Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art Morning Session, November 15, 2007, lot 214
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oldenburg: Six Themes, April 6 - May 25, 1975, then traveled to Denver, The Denver Art Museum (June 28 - August 24, 1975), Seattle, Seattle Art Museum (September 29 - November 9, 1975); New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art (January 16 - February 27, 1976); Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (April 4 - May 9, 1976)
    New York, Wave Hill, Standing Mitt with Ball: From Concept to Monument, September 16 – November 4, 1984
    New York, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Objects and Drawings, 2003

  • Literature

    M. Friedman, Oldenburg: Six Themes, exh. cat., Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1975, p. 82

165

Standing mitt with ball in Greenwich site – back view

1973
crayon and watercolor on paper
14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Signed and dated "73" along the lower edge.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $37,500

Contact Specialist
Amanda Stoffel
Head of Sale
astoffel@phillips.com
+1 212 940 1261

Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 17 May 2013 10am