This is a superb original signed and numbered limited edition lithograph by internationally acclaimed Pop artist CLAES OLDENBURG (Born 1929-), dated 1972.

This rare original lithograph is entitled "Soft Drum Set" (G. 417; A./P. 97), and is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right "CO" and dated "72". It is also numbered on the lower left "31/68", from the total limited edition of only 68 impressions printed on Angoumois à la main handmade pale yellow paper with deckle edges. It was published and printed by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, and bears their embossed blindstamp on the lower right.  It measures 29" x 40" and is unframed. It is in excellent condition aside from a soft handling crease along the upper left sheet edge. CATALOGUE REFERENCE: Gemini G.E.L. NGA Catalogue Raisonné no. 38.32. This lithograph has been sold out for a long time but was last listed at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl for $7,000. unframed. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Shipping is $75.00 within the US only, please email for international shipping rates. Please view eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles, including other limited edition prints published by Gemini GEL.

One of the original Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm the son of a Swedish diplomat, and spent his early years in Stockholm and Oslo until they moved to Chicago in 1937. He attended Yale University, then returned to Chicago, where he worked for a newspaper and also attended drawing classes at The Art Institute. Oldenburg moved to New York in 1956. His early work in New York was an urban realism in cardboard and paper influenced by the work of Dubuffet and the New Realists, seen as a brutal response to society. In 1961 he rented a storefront on the Lower East Side and sold brightly painted plaster objects, three dimensional and wall reliefs, based on hamburgers, pastries, men's and women's clothing, and other commodities. The signature soft sculptures followed, objects of commonplace household objects made of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok. The soft sculptures transformed the medium, and they are intended as sensual experiences and commentary on our material world of objects and our relationship to them.