Details — Click to read
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.
