About the Artwork
Profile Airflow
1969
Claes Oldenburg
1929 - 2022
American
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Cast polyurethane relief over two-color lithograph in aluminum frame
Framed: 36 3/8 × 68 3/8 × 6 1/4 inches (92.4 × 173.7 × 15.9 cm) Unframed: 33 1/2 × 65 1/2 × 4 inches (85.1 × 166.4 × 10.2 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund
70.651
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed lower right: Oldenburg 69
Dated, lower right: 69 Numbered, lower left: 73/75 Inscribed with title, lower center: Profile Airflow
Provenance
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Young, Joseph E. "Claes Oldenburg at Gemini." Artist's Proof 9 (1969): pp. 44-52.
Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 4 (1971): pp. 69-78, (ill.).
Finch, Christopher. "Breaking Through the Print Barrier." Art News 70, no. 9 (January 1972): pp. 34-39, 65-66.
Goldman, Judith. "Sort of a Commercial for Objects." The Print Collector's Newsletter (January-February 1972): pp. 117-121.
Loring, John. "Oldenburg on Multiples." Arts Magazine 48, no. 8 (May 1974): pp. 42-45.
“Family Art Game.” Detroit News, April 27, 1980, p. 22 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
Eietl-Porter, Rhoda. "Driving the American Dream: Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg." American Art (Spring 2021): pp. 24-30; p. 27, (fig. 5).
Brody, David. "Design Intervention: Introduction." American Art (Spring 2021): pp. 2-8; pp. 4-5 (detail color ill.).
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© Claes Oldenburg, Courtesy of Pace Gallery
Claes Oldenburg, Profile Airflow, 1969, cast polyurethane relief over two-color lithograph in aluminum frame. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 70.651.
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