Name: CLAES OLDENBURG (B. 1929)
Brand: Fixture for a London Taxi: Interior Lamp in the Form of an Ear
Price: 6500.00 USD
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CLAES OLDENBURG (B. 1929)
Fixture for a London Taxi: Interior Lamp in the Form of an Ear
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'CO. 1966' (lower left); inscribed 'Taxi mon. ear' (lower right)
casein and crayon on paper
15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.8 cm.)
Executed in 1966.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Louise Ferrari, Houston, 1968
Elizabeth Eads, gifted from the above
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 2 April 2008, lot 61
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

G. Baro, Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints, Lausanne, 1969, p. 264, no. 303 (illustrated).
C. Oldenburg, Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965-69, Chicago, 1969, pp. 86-87 and 159, pl. 24 (illustrated).
A. Hochdorfer, M. Oldenburg and B. Schroder, Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side, 1956-1969, New York, 2003, p. 329 (illustrated).

London, Robert Fraser Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, November - December 1966, no. 37.
Pasadena Art Museum, Claes Oldenburg: object into monument, December 1971-February 1972, no. 88.
New York, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Objects and Drawings, October- November 2003.

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