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CLAES OLDENBURG (1929-2022)
Proposed Colossal Monument to Enliven a Quiet Street London: Gorilla
partially titled 'mon for quiet street' (lower left); signed with the artist's initials and dated 'CO 66' (lower right)
watercolor and colored chalk on paper
15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 10 November 1988, lot 173
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner
Exhibited
Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, May-September 1981.
Austin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art, January-March 1993.
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