Glass Case with Pies (Assorted Pies in a Case)

1962

Claes Oldenburg

Associated Names
Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

The sculpture depicts a collection of pies arranged in a vertical stack inside a transparent display case. The case is made of a clear material with a metallic frame. Each pie is placed on a separate shelf within the unit, with one resting on the top of the case. The door to the case is ajar. The pies are round and placed in silver pie tins, and they are each decorated differently, with colors including golden browns, whites, yellows, reds, and blues. The background is plain gray.
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 407-D

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Green Gallery, New York); (Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); gift 1991 to NGA.
[1]Provenance according to Art for the Nation : Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, exh. cat., Washington, 1991

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement to catalogue, color repro.

1992

  • American Art 1930-1970, Lingotto S.r.l., Turin, Italy, 1992, repro. 253.

1995

  • Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik..., Bonn; Hayward Gallery, London, 1995-1996, no. 84, repro.

2001

  • Les années Pop, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2001, not in catalogue (but reproduced in a special edition of Connaissance des Arts accompanying the exhibition).

2002

  • Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no. 103, color repro.

2012

  • Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2012-2014, unnumbered catalogue (shown only in New York).

Bibliography

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 163, repro.

Inscriptions

under each pie: [artist's initials]

Wikidata ID

Q63860768

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