Apple Core (First State)

started 1989, published 1990

Claes Oldenburg

Associated Names
Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Kenneth Farley

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Carmen Schilaci

Printer, American, born 1966

Phil Silverman

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in gray and black on green Laurence Barker handmade paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lee and Ann Fensterstock

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 102.08 × 72.07 cm (40 3/16 × 28 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.177.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 208

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 Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 1445.

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. 370, no. 208.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.50. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: S.P.I; lower right in graphite: CO.; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CO89-1205A

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q76337470

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