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Auction Name: 2026 January 28 Tools at Play: The Hechinger Collection Modern & Contemporary Art Showcase Auction
Lot Number: 36037
Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/17228*36037
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)
Sketch for a Three-way Plug, 1972
Offset lithograph in colors with airbrush details on B.F.K. Rives paper
31 x 23-3/4 inches (78.7 x 60.3 cm) (sight)
Ed. 167/250 (aside from 9 trial proofs)
Signed and editioned in pencil along lower edge
Published by the University Art Museum Council, Berkeley, California
Printed by the California Printing Company, San Francisco
Property from the Hechinger Collection
PROVENANCE:
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York;
Acquired by the present owner from the above, March 1979.
EXHIBITED:
City Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, (and elsewhere), "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection," July 1, 2001-December 30, 2008;
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida (and elsewhere), "ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection," November 10, 2014-October 26, 2020.
LITERATURE:
P. Hamill, Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, New York, 1995, p. 158, illustrated in color;
R. Axsom & D. Platzker, Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claus Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonne 1958-1996, New York, 1997, p. 204, no. 86, illustrated in color.
NOTE:
This print is after an original drawing entitled Sketch of a 3-Way Plug, 1965, located in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art.
Condition Report*:
Presents very well. Negligible handling dents observed primarily under raking light. UV examined, a few very scattered pin dots of foxing. Matted and framed under acrylic, not examined outside of frame.
Framed Dimensions 39 X 31.5 Inches
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