Claes Oldenburg

Nude with Electric Plug
1967

A sketch featuring a surreal scene with a central figure resembling a young girl with exaggerated facial features, surrounded by various abstract and distorted forms that include faces with hollow eyes and mouths. The drawing is dynamic, with multiple overlapping lines and shapes creating a sense of movement and chaos. A balloon-like shape is faintly visible in the top right corner. The artwork is signed and dated at the bottom right.

A sketch featuring a surreal scene with a central figure resembling a young girl with exaggerated facial features, surrounded by various abstract and distorted forms that include faces with hollow eyes and mouths. The drawing is dynamic, with multiple overlapping lines and shapes creating a sense of movement and chaos. A balloon-like shape is faintly visible in the top right corner. The artwork is signed and dated at the bottom right.

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Date
1967

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil, colored pencil and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 39 7/8 × 26 1/16in. (101.3 × 66.2 cm)

Accession number
2002.39

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/13550

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

May 7–Sept 6, 2009
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
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