Large dark twisted abstract form towers over a small palm tree and tiny figures on the ground.

Prints

Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending

1976

Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 67 3/8 × 44 15/16 in. (171.1 × 114.1 cm) Image: 58 7/8 × 39 7/8 in. (149.5 × 101.3 cm)
Accession number
2005.155.6
Acquired
2005
Credit line
Gift of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Edition
AP VII/XI | Ed. 35, PP II, RTP, 3 GEL, C
Publication
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending, 1976. Lithograph, sheet: 67 3/8 × 44 15/16 in. (171.1 × 114.1 cm) Image: 58 7/8 × 39 7/8 in. (149.5 × 101.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli 2005.155.6. © Claes Oldenburg

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