Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) - Geometric Mouse Scale Sculpture, Framed (1971). Offset lithographs in gray on wove paper laminated to die-cut boards, with stainless steel wire, bead chains, and nickel-plated fasteners. Original Geometric Mouse Scale shadowboxed in a light wood frame. Metal label en recto in the bottom left corner. In very good condition with wear and toning consistent with age.

Size: 16.25 x 20.25 x 2 in

Oldenburg rose to prominence in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he was among the artists staging Happenings—a hybrid art form incorporating installation, performance, and other mediums—on the city’s Lower East Side. Collaborative and ephemeral, these environments included The Street (1960), The Store (1961), and Bedroom Ensemble(1963). Following his work with props in these Happenings, Oldenburg began creating his iconic soft sculptures, which charted new frontiers in the medium, upending its traditional contents, forms, and materials.

Oldenburg’s work can be found in major museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Menil Collection, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate, London; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and other institutions.