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Soft Manhattan #1 (Postal Zones)

© Claes Oldenburg

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Claes Oldenburg

American, born Sweden, 1929

Soft Manhattan #1 (Postal Zones), 1966

stenciled canvas filled with kapok

overall: 70 x 26 x 4 inches (177.8 x 66.04 x 10.16 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1966

K1966:7

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Inscriptions

inscription; signature, dated / back / Soft Manhattan #1 (Postal Zones) Claes Oldenburg 1966

Provenance

the artist;
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York;
sold to Seymour H. Knox, Jr. for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, April 13, 1966

Class

Sculpture (visual work)

Work Type

Construction (sculpture)

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