Claes Oldenburg

Silver Torso with Brown Underwear

1961

Abstract collage with torn newspaper background and large black and brown paint drips across the surface.

Abstract collage with torn newspaper background and large black and brown paint drips across the surface.

Not on view

Date
1961

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Enamel on collaged newspaper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 22 3/8 × 15 3/4 in. (56.8 × 40 cm)

Accession number
2002.6

Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/13509

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

May 7–Sept 6, 2009
The Whitney’s Collection

Jan 30, 2008–Jan 3, 2010
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection, 23 exhibitions

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