Study for Tongue Cloud
Artwork details
- Artist
- Claes Oldenburg
- Title
- Study for Tongue Cloud
- Description
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Soft-ground etching and aquatint in five colors “à la poupée” printed on white, thick, moderately textured Hodgkinson handmade paper. Signed by the artist and dated 1976 lower right in pencil; numbered 59/60 in pencil lower left. When printing “à la poupée”, multiple colors can be applied to the plate for printing at one time.
Soft-ground etching and aquatint printed on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Signed by the artist and dated 1976 lower right in pencil; numbered 59/60 in pencil lower left. When printing “à la poupée”, multiple colors can be applied to the plate for printing at one time.
Oldenburg based Study for Tongue Cloud on a drawing he made in 1975 for a poster to benefit an arts festival in St. Louis. He pictured an enormous tongue coming out of a cloud, between St. Louis’ famous arch, and a piece of raisin bread. The sponsors of the festival rejected the design, on the grounds that it was inappropriate.
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- Color Etching and Aquatint
- Edition
- 60
- Signature
- Signed
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996 Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Madison Art Center Wisconsin 1997, no. 157 illustrated
- Image
- 9.9 x 7.9 cm
- Sheet
- 24.6 x 19.75 cm
- Price
- $4,000.00
