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A pale clown face with blue eyes and black teardrops sticks out its tongue against graph paper.

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Symbolic Self-Portrait with "Equals"

Claes Oldenburg

1969, printed 1971

Medium
Offset lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 28 1/2 × 20 7/8 in. (72.4 × 53 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 14 7/8 in. (50.5 × 37.8 cm)
Accession number
2009.59
Acquired
2009
Credit line
Gift of the artist
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Edition
AC 5/25 | Ed. 300, 2 PCs, 2 Replacement prints
Publication
Printed by Colorcraft Lithographers; published by Sidney Janis Gallery Editions; published by Contemporary Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Symbolic Self-Portrait with "Equals", 1969, printed 1971. Offset lithograph, sheet: 28 1/2 × 20 7/8 in. (72.4 × 53 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 14 7/8 in. (50.5 × 37.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 2009.59. © Claes Oldenburg

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