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Soft Inverted Q

1977
20th C.
North America, U.S.A.
72 in. x 70 in. x 63 in. (182.88 cm x 177.8 cm x 160.02 cm)

By (primary)
Claes Oldenburg American, born in Sweden, 1929
Cast by
Lippincott Foundry American, founded in 1966

Medium: Concrete, steel, and pink polyurethane paint

Credit Line: Given in memory of George Quist, Class of 1948, by Binnie Gates

Accession Number: 1998.112

Provenance

Acquired from Castelli Gallery by Doug Walla (Kent Gallery) who sold it to the donor in 1986

Bibliography

Robert Doty, The Inverted Q, Akron, 1977;
Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Kunst der Gegenwart, 1960 bis Ende der 80er Jahre;
Bestandkatalog, Monchengladbach, 1988;
The Pace Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, New York, 1992;
Journal of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, I, 1998–1999, repr. p. 102

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