A rough black-and-white drawing of a skull and a long bone against a dark background.

Prints

Soft Pencil Sharpener

1989

Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm) Image (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm)
Accession number
2016.221
Acquired
2016
Credit line
Gift of Susan and Arthur Fleischer
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Edition
4/75
Publication
Printed by Derrière l'Étoile Studios; published by Parasol Press, Ltd.; published by Brooklyn Academy of Music
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Soft Pencil Sharpener, 1989. Lithograph, sheet (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm) Image (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Susan and Arthur Fleischer 2016.221. © Claes Oldenburg

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