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Soft Fire Plug, Inverted

1973

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Petersburg Press

Publisher

Medium

color lithograph on Hodgkinson handmade paper
Credit Line

Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Dimensions

sheet: 101.6 × 78.11 cm (40 × 30 3/4 in.)
Accession

1976.56.124
Catalogue Raisonné

Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 84

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1976 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Woodward Foundation

Exhibition History

1981

Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1997

Axsom, Richard H., and David Platzker. Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-1996. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997, p. 202, no. 84.

Wikidata ID

Q65566954

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