Fork Cutting Cake No. 1: Proposed Colossal Monument for Piccadilly Circus, London

1966

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and lithographic crayon on antique wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Director's Discretionary Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 37.9 x 56 cm (14 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.59.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, John Weber Gallery, New York); private collection, Chicago; Grant-Selwyn Fine Art, New York and Los Angeles; (Marlborough Gallery, New York, On Paper: Selected Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 18 Jan.-19 Feb. 2000, no. 101); purchased by NGA, 2000

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • On Paper, Selected Drawings of the 19th and 20th Century, Marlborough Gallery, New York, 18 January - 19 February 2000, p. 34.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 111.

Bibliography

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 111.

Inscriptions

lower right in lithographic crayon: CO 66; lower left in lithographic crayon: Pic.

Watermarks

T&J H KENT (Thomas and John Hollingworth, c. 1847-1860

Wikidata ID

Q64540056

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