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THBCLAES THURE OLDENBURG, (American, b. 1929), Crusoe Umbrella, 1977
Lot 159
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CLAES THURE OLDENBURG
(American, b. 1929)
Crusoe Umbrella
1977, watercolor and crayon on paper
signed and dated C.O. 77 lower center; titled R. Crusoe lower right
sight: 11 x 13 3/4 in., frame: 18 1/8 x 21 in.
Provenance: By descent within the family of a private collector.
Exhibitions:
- The Pace Gallery, New York, Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Large Scale Projects: Drawings and Sculpture, December 2, 1994 - January 7, 1995, cat no. 34 (label verso)
- Museo Correr, Comune di Venezia - Musei Civici, Oldenburg e Van Bruggen, May 22 - October 30, 1999, cat. no. 33 (label verso)
- Library of the Boston Athenaeum, From Boston Collections, October 10 - December 1, 2007 (label verso)
Other Notes:
This watercolor served as the inspiration for a large-scale Oldenburg sculpture inspired by an illustration from Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), in which a castaway fashions an umbrella from the island’s natural materials to remind himself of the civilization he once knew. In 1978 Claes Oldenburg together with his wife and collaborator Coosje van Bruggen dedicated their careers to creating outdoor, site-specific public sculptures, including their first commission for the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, Iowa. The realized Crusoe Umbrella, though made of steel, recalls the organic plant forms of the umbrella in Defoe’s novel. Speaking about the design the artists stated, “ The umbrella of Crusoe was as structured as it had to be, yet organic in form, made of branches and plants on the island. This image became our point of departure. We wanted to place an exotic element in the midst of prosaic circumstances and turn the center of the continent paradoxically into an island in the sea." - Shipping Info
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