Soft Toilet #3—on Chalk Board

1972

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Jeff Wasserman

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

Claes Oldenburg

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color screenprint on Special Arjomari wove paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    image: 47.1 x 36.5 cm (18 9/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 76.1 x 57.1 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.74.180

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 94

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1991 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 Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 415.

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. 218, no. 94.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.30. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower left on screen: toilet; lower left in graphite: GEM I; lower right in graphite: CO. 72; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CO72-5043

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q74889789

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