About the Artwork
Pile of Erasers
1975
Claes Oldenburg (Artist) American, 1929 - 2022 Jack Lemon (Printer) Multiples, Inc. (Publisher) American
Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper
Image: 19 × 22 3/8 inches (48.3 × 56.8 cm) Sheet: 23 3/8 × 29 1/8 inches (59.4 × 74 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
75.98
Maartje Oldenburg
Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, lower center: CO. 75
Inscribed, in pencil, below stamp, lower left corner, verso: CO 75528
Watermark: lower right corner: HMP Drystamp, lower left corner: [printer] Drystamp, lower center: [copyright mark] Stamped, in brown, lower left corner, verso: Landfall Press Stamped, in black, center lower edge, verso: Copyright 1975 | Claes Oldenburg | 63 W. Ontario | Chicago, Ill. 60610
Provenance
1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Maartje Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg, Pile of Erasers, 1975, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 75.98.
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