Claes Oldenburg Signed Lithograph "Slice of Cake" from the "One Cent Life" Portfolio

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A signed double-sided limited edition lithograph on paper titled Slice of Cake (page 137-138) by well-listed artist Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) from the “One Cent Life” Portfolio of Pop Art Lithographs written by well-listed Chinese poet Wallace Ting (1929 – 2010) and edited by well-listed American painter Sam Francis, created in 1964. The image printed by Maurice Beaudet in Paris depicts a vibrant slice of yellow cake with pink filling and blue icing. It is dated “1963” in plate with a poem to the lower half of the page, and is hand-signed in deep blue-purple to the lower left. On the verso is a poem titled Ciao, Angel with a blue image of a nude woman holding onto an eagle with a plane in the background. Presented without frame or matting.

This is lithograph is from an edition of 2000 taken from the unbound elephant-folio. The portfolio was published in an edition of 2000 by E.W. Kornfeld in Bern, Switzerland where 100 editions were reserved for New York, Paris, and participants. This lithograph comes from a collection of 62 lithographs and serigraphs in colors on BFK Rives paper by 28 masters of Pop Art and COBRA movements. The portfolio includes work by Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann and many more.

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17CIN164-138