Nov 18, 2010 - Sale 2231

Sale 2231 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
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 "VIII/XXV" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Landfall Press, Chicago. Published by Multiples, 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. Axsom 156.