Claes Oldenburg (Stockholm, 1929 - New York, 2022)
Chocolate Eclair, 1964
Casein painted plaster object on a porcelain plate
Signed, located and dated beneath the eclair "Oldenburg Paris 1964"
Unique piece
16 x 4 x 3,8 cm (eclair)
Diam : 19 cm (plate)
Provenance:
- Collection Mrs. Claes Oldenburg, New-York (Patty Mucha)
- Collection Mr. and Mrs. A. Bartos, Aspen
- Timothy Baum, New York
- Private collection, Los Angeles
- New York auction, Christie's, 21 November 1996, lot 189
- James Goodman Gallery, New York
- Timothy Baum, New York
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris

Exhibitions:
- Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, "Claes Oldenburg", October 1964, described in the catalogue under no.12, unpaginated
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Claes Oldenburg: A Retrospective", September - November 1969, illustrated in the catalogue p. 88

Bibliography:
- S. Ginsburg, "Claes Oldenburg: Sculpture, 1960-1968. A Catalogue Raisonne", volumes I and II, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1991, illustrated in the catalogue under no. 239 p. 320 (dimensions: 6 1/2 x 2 x 1 3/8 in.)