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CLAES OLDENBURG (1929-2022)
Blue Hat
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'C.O. 1962' (on the underside)
painted plaster
51⁄2 x 12 x 10 in. (14 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1962
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. S. Brooks Barron, Detroit (acquired by 1969).
Blum Helman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1979.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Claes Oldenburg, September-November 1969, pp. 11 and 215 (illustrated; titled Blue Men's Hat).
Cologne, Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May-August 1981, n.p., no. 684 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Making of a New Aesthetic: The American Avant Garde, 1958-1964, September-December 1984.
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