Hard Times Bulb—Night

started 1994, published 1995

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

James Reid

Printer, American, born 1948

Desiree Scott

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photolithograph in black with chine collé on gray Dieu Donne handmade paper with clear-coated pin and powder-coated coathanger

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lee and Ann Fensterstock

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 80.8 × 61.28 cm (31 13/16 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.177.55

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 257

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; Lee and Ann Fensterstock, New York; acquired 2000 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 1644.

1997

  • Axsom, Richard H., and David Platzker. Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-1996. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997, p. 427, no. 257.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.65. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower right in white pencil: CO; lower left verso in white pencil by unknown hand: CO94-180A #27 1995

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Wikidata ID

Q76337508

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