May 12, 2016 - Sale 2415

Sale 2415 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CLAES OLDENBURG
Geometric Mouse Pyramid as an Image of the Electoral System, Doubled.

Color lithograph on heavy Arches Cover paper, 1976. 889x660 mm; 35x26 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered "VI/XXV" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Landfall Press, Chicago. Published by Multiples Inc., New York.

Commissioned by the Democratic National Committee to Benefit Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, the image was rejected by the DNC and subsequently published by Multiples.

Based on Oldenburg's pencil and crayon drawing Scales of the Geometric Mouse, 1971.

With-- Proposal for a Colossal Monument in the Form of a Typewriter Eraser for Alcatraz Island (1972), offset lithograph poster, 1975. 822x610 mm; 32x24 inches (sheet), full margins. Edition of 100, aside from the unsigned edition of 900. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Precision Colorplate Company, Chicago. Published by the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, with the text. Very good impressions. Axsom 156 and 136.1.