Claes Oldenburg Notebook Torn in Half

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Since the 1960s, Claes Oldenburg has worked at the forefront of the Conceptual and Pop art movements, and he’s best known for his monumental public sculptures of everyday objects. These include Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (1969, reworked 1974) in New Haven, Connecticut; Clothespin (1976) in Philadelphia; Shuttlecocks (1992) in Kansas City; and Cupid’s Span (2002), a gigantic archer’s bow in San Francisco. These pieces epitomize Oldenburg’s irreverent sense of humor and fascination with American consumerism, qualities which have also pervaded his performances, drawings, writings, and famous “soft sculptures”—cushiony, unserious objects that resemble diner foods and other symbols of Americana. Oldenburg’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet, and the Centre Pompidou. At auction, many of his sculptures—including those of a clothespin, a depiction of a flexed muscle, french horns, a dress, a trowel, a sewing machine, and a typewriter eraser—have sold for more than $1 million. Oldenburg often collaborated with his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009.

Claes Oldenburg, Notebook Torn in Half, 1997, Signed, Original lithograph, Edition 61/97, 25 1/2" x 22" Sheet Size