Soft Toilet #2

1972

Claes Oldenburg

Associated Names
Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Kenneth Tyler

Printer, American, born 1931

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

The image shows a charcoal drawing of a toilet with the lid and seat raised. The drawing is done in a loose, expressive style using black charcoal on a white background. The toilet is depicted from a slight angle showing both the front and side of the structure, with shading and smudging around the bowl for depth and texture.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on Angoumois à la Main handmade paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 51.44 × 37.47 cm (20 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1981.5.71

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 93

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1981 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 Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 414.

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. 217, no. 93.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.29. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Gem I; lower right in graphite: CO. 72; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CO72-458

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.] / © Claes Oldenburg 1972; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Wikidata ID

Q74035268

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