Claes Oldenburg

Proposed Colossal Monument for Battersea Park, London, Drum Set
1966, printed 1969

A watercolor concept sketch featuring a stylized, oversized Mickey Mouse head-shaped hot air balloon over a landscape with a bridge and a river at sunset. The sky is painted with soft hues of blue, red, and yellow, and the artwork includes the artist's signature at the bottom.
A watercolor concept sketch featuring a stylized, oversized Mickey Mouse head-shaped hot air balloon over a landscape with a bridge and a river at sunset. The sky is painted with soft hues of blue, red, and yellow, and the artwork includes the artist's signature at the bottom.

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Date
1966, printed 1969

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photo-offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 23 15/16 × 35 1/4in. (60.8 × 89.5 cm)

Accession number
70.23

Edition
127/300

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

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Claes Oldenburg
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