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Auction Name: 2026 January 28 Tools at Play: The Hechinger Collection Modern & Contemporary Art Showcase Auction
Lot Number: 36038
Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/17228*36038
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)
Screwarch Bridge (State I), 1980
Etching on wove paper
31 x 57 inches (78.7 x 144.8 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 12/15 (aside from 9 artist's proofs)
Signed and editioned in pencil along lower edge
Published by Multiples, New York
Printed by Aeropress, New York; with their blindstamp lower right
Property from the Hechinger Collection
EXHIBITED:
City Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, (and elsewhere), "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection," July 1, 2001-December 30, 2008;
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, (and elsewhere), "Tools in Motion: Works from the Hechinger Collection," September 17, 2005-August 18, 2013;
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. 119, illustrated in color;
R. Axsom & D. Platzker, Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claus Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonne 1958-1996, New York, 1997, p. 321, no. 172, illustrated in color.
Condition Report*:
Presents well. Light toning to sheet. Undulations to sheet throughout. UV examined, scattered light foxing throughout.
Framed Dimensions 34 X 60.5 Inches
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