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Sketch of a distorted, elongated human leg and torso with a shoe at the lower end.

Drawings

Drainpipe—Dream State

Claes Oldenburg

1967

Medium
Graphite and wax crayon on paper mounted to board
Dimensions
Sheet: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm) Mount (board): 31 × 23 × 1/2 in. (78.7 × 58.4 × 1.3 cm)
Accession number
2000.6
Acquired
2000
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund for the Acquisition of Master Drawings and the Drawing Committee
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Drainpipe—Dream State, 1967. Graphite and wax crayon on paper mounted to board, sheet: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm) Mount (board): 31 × 23 × 1/2 in. (78.7 × 58.4 × 1.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund for the Acquisition of Master Drawings and the Drawing Committee 2000.6. © Claes Oldenburg

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