Pile of Erasers

 

Claes Thure Oldenburg

  1929 - 2022 (biography)

1975  

lithograph in seven colors 

18 7/8 x 22 1/8" image 

initialed in pencil, lower center 

46 of 75  

dated after initials, stamps of Landfall Press and Oldenburg on verso; paper is embossed with copyright symbol and the chop of the printer 

Axsom 130; Landfall Press work number CO75528 

ivory wove handmade Koller HMP watermarked paper 

published 

Landfall Press and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 

KAAR102 

SOLD

This early, rare lithograph by Claes Oldenburg was published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Landfall Press. The Walker's notes about the publication stated:

"For decades, American Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, creator of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985–1988), has employed his characteristic approach of exaggerating everyday objects, such as hamburgers and electric plugs, through shifts in scale, texture, and material. In this print, he renders a pile of typewriter erasers soft and pliable with the gestural marks of his lithograph crayon. “The typewriter eraser is a low object… an anti-heroic object, especially when it gets used quite a bit,” the artist says. “I don’t often use them. When I make a mistake, I just leave it on the page because sometimes it’s quite interesting.”