(Stockholm 1929–2022 New York City)
Cold Cream Jar, 1963, signed and dated on the bottom, plaster, painted with enamel, two pieces: 4.6 x 8.9 cm and 2 x 8.5 cm, within plexiglass case

Provenance:
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s New York, 5 October 1989, lot 194
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
LM Fine Art, New York (photocopy of the certificate available)
Sale, Farsettiarte, Prato, 31 May 2013, lot 441
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
New York, Sidney Janis Galley, 1964

Literature:
S. Ginsburg (ed.), Claes Oldenburg: Sculpture, 1960–1968. A Catalogue raisonné, City University of New York, 1991, vol. I, pp. XI and 299, no. 214

Note:
Signed and dated 1964; although the piece was made while in Los Angeles in 1963. Other works in this group of “Miniature Objects”, is Powder Puff, ex-collection Zwirner, Cologne

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum (...)
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs.
I am for the art of ice-cream cones dropped on concrete. I am for the majestic art of dog turds, rising like cathedrals...

Claes Oldenburg, 1961, quoted in:
Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1995, p. 96