Claes Oldenburg

Symbolic Self-Portrait with "Equals"
1969, printed 1971

Illustration of a caricatured face with exaggerated features, wearing a green hat, set against a blue graph paper background with various geometric shapes and mathematical equations. The artwork includes signatures and annotations, suggesting it is a print or a piece of conceptual art.
Illustration of a caricatured face with exaggerated features, wearing a green hat, set against a blue graph paper background with various geometric shapes and mathematical equations. The artwork includes signatures and annotations, suggesting it is a print or a piece of conceptual art.

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Date
1969, printed 1971

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 28 1/2 × 20 7/8in. (72.4 × 53 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 14 7/8in. (50.5 × 37.8 cm)

Accession number
2009.59

Edition
AC 5/25 | Ed. 300, 2 PCs, 2 Replacement prints

Publication
Printed by Colorcraft Lithographers; published by Sidney Janis Gallery Editions; published by Contemporary Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

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