Claes Oldenburg

Pat Reading in Bed, Lenox
1959

A sketch on paper depicting a reclining figure playing a stringed instrument, possibly a lyre, with a relaxed posture and a serene expression. The drawing is rendered with loose, expressive lines, and the background is lightly suggested with abstract shapes and lines.

A sketch on paper depicting a reclining figure playing a stringed instrument, possibly a lyre, with a relaxed posture and a serene expression. The drawing is rendered with loose, expressive lines, and the background is lightly suggested with abstract shapes and lines.

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Date
1959

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 14 × 16 9/16in. (35.6 × 42.1 cm)

Accession number
2002.4

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/13506

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
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