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Prints and Drawings
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Copyright Claes Oldenburg/Pace Gallery
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Artist: Claes Oldenburg, American, born Sweden 1929, B.A. 1950
Publisher: Multiples, Inc., New York, founded 1965

Broken Button

1981

Multiple media: Dyed and cast paper; screenprint in three colors on white, very thick, smooth mat board; wood and plexiglass

41.3 × 36.2 × 16.5 cm (16 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Gift of Charlotte DeMonte Phelps, Ph.D. 1961
2001.114.1
Geography: 
Made in United States
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Multiples
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