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Claes Oldenburg (American, b.1929)
LOT ID: 19044
The Soap at Baton Rouge, 1990

Serigraph / Screenprint, Mixed Media Sculpture Edition, Soap:cast resin; Bed: vinyl filled with aluminum silicate; Serigraph on acetate sheet: acetate, Catalogue of Oldenburg Multiples
9.5 х 12.5 in. cm.
Signed, and numbered in book. Multiples in Retrospect 1964 - 1990 with the new multiple)
Soap: 3/4 x 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches 1.9 x 1.9 x 7 cm
Bed: 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches 1.9 x 24.1 x 31.8 cm
Serigraph on acetate sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches 24.1 x 31.8 cm . (A deluxe edition book with production histories of all the artist's multiples. 160 pages. 142 illustrations, 94 in color. The book is signed and numbered by the artist and is accompanied by the multiple, 'The Soap at Baton Rouge'. The multiple is incised with the artist's initials and numbered to correspond with the book.

Edition 219/250
Foundry/Publisher Carl Solway Gallery
Lot description
This marvelous multiple combines the river bed with the soap. Accompanied by the Multiples Catalogue Raisonne, penned by Arthur Solway.

Claes Oldenburg: "When Carl Solway called me in May 1972 and asked if I would be interested in proposing a large-scale work for Cincinnati, he mentioned that partial funding for such a work might be sought from the Procter & Gamble Corporation, whose world headquarters are in that city. The most familiar product of that company is the bar of pure white soap we all grew up with-lVORY-embossed with its name on top. Its slogan-"lt floats"-advertises one of its unique properties, a property it has in common with balloons and ships. What sprang to mind almost immediately, given the location of Cincinnati on the Ohio River, was the combination of a floating soap bar and an old-fashioned, paddle-wheel riverboat-in other words, a colossal bar of Ivory soap..."

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  • Claes Oldenburg

    The soap at Baton Rouge (+ Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, bk)
    cast resin, vinyl filled with aluminum silicate with screenprint on acetate
    (H 0.7, W 4.8, D 2.8) in.
    (1.9 x 12.1 x 7) cm.
    Ed. 13/250
    Sold for: US$1,080
    Thursday, November 20, 2008
    Swann Galleries
    Lot 00152
  • Claes Oldenburg

    The soap at Baton Rouge
    assemblage in box
    (H 13.5, W 20.5) in.
    (34.3 x 52.1) cm.
    Ed. ed.250
    Sold for: US$1,610
    Sunday, March 11, 2001
    Wright
    Lot 00115
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