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Yellow leather sculpture resembling a deformed cello suspended from metal hooks with white cords.
Yellow leather sculpture resembling a deformed cello suspended from metal hooks with white cords. — view 104640 Yellow leather sculpture resembling a deformed cello suspended from metal hooks with white cords. — view 104641

Sculpture

Soft Viola

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

2002

Medium
Canvas, resin, rope, and metal painted with latex
Dimensions
Overall: 104 × 60 × 22 in. (264.2 × 152.4 × 55.9 cm)
Accession number
2002.257a-g
Acquired
2002
Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Edition
1/2
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Soft Viola, 2002. Canvas, resin, rope, and metal painted with latex, overall: 104 × 60 × 22 in. (264.2 × 152.4 × 55.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.257a-g. © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

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