Shuttlecock/Sphinx in Autumn

Artist Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022)

Artist Coosje van Bruggen (American, born the Netherlands, 1942 - 2009)

Date1999

MediumPastel, charcoal, and graphite pencil on white wove paper

DimensionsImage and sheet: 38 × 49 7/8 inches (96.52 × 126.68 cm)
Framed: 43 1/2 × 55 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (110.49 × 140.97 × 4.45 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Estelle and Morton Sosland in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Object number2021.31.6

Signedlower right corner, in graphite pencil: "Oldenberg\CO CM 11\99"

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DescriptionThis drawing depicts a sphinx whose head has been replaced by a shuttlecock. The sphinx reclines on a large base. The drawing is executed primarily in blue with the tip or head of the sphinx in orange. Landscape as background is also in blue with small orange falling leaves.Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from the artists;

Bequeathed by Estelle and Morton Sosland to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2021.

Published References

Oldenburg, Claes and van Bruggen, Coosje, "Large-Scale Projects," The Monacelli Press, 1994.

Oldenburg, Claes and van Bruggen, Coosje, "Sculpture By The Way," Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin, October 25, 2006-February 25, 2007, Skira Editore S.p.A., 2006.

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