Claes Oldenburg

Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending

1976

Large dark twisted abstract form towers over a small palm tree and tiny figures on the ground.
Large dark twisted abstract form towers over a small palm tree and tiny figures on the ground.

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Date
1976

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 67 3/8 × 44 15/16 in. (171.1 × 114.1 cm) Image: 58 7/8 × 39 7/8 in. (149.5 × 101.3 cm)

Accession number
2005.155.6

Edition
AP VII/XI | Ed. 35, PP II, RTP, 3 GEL, C

Publication
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.

Credit line
Gift of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/27669

Part of a series:
The Soft Screw
8 works

A loose charcoal sketch of a woman wearing a hat with a long braided ponytail.
A large curved faucet spout sketch pours a twisted, scribbled stream onto a flat surface.
Tall, twisted column rising from ground to a large mushroom-shaped cloud above a flat landscape.
Tall crooked tree with a thick, textured trunk and broad rounded canopy drawn in black ink.
Large dark twisted abstract form towers over a small palm tree and tiny figures on the ground.
Bold black ink sketch of a large stylized helmeted head with swirling, textured lines.
Loose black ink sketch of a large curled organic shape with a central oval and textured lines.
A bold black ink sketch of a crescent-shaped form with textured edges and oval elements.

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection, 22 exhibitions

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