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This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a woman peeks out from loops and knots of thick cord, a modern-day Laocoön and His Sons. She seems nonplussed regarding her captivity The loose and confident lines, complemented with painterly washes of grey, were likely drawn directly and spontaneously onto the plate by the artist.
Woman Entwined in Giant Electric Cord (Edition A), 1976
Soft-ground etching and spitbite aquatint in one color on white, thick, slightly textured Rives BFK paper
Plate: 30¼ × 21 ½ in. / 76.8 x 54.6 cm Sheet: 40⅝ × 29 ½ in. / 103.2 × 74.9 cm
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: 1976; numbered in pencil, lower left; copyright blind stamp, lower center; in plate. Edition of 50 with 12 Artist’s Proofs: this copy 50/50
Printed by Maurice Payne at Petersburg Press, London. Published by Petersburg Press, London
and New York.
Condition: Light horizontal crease along entire lower edge and two small discolorations left edge, as photographed.
Catalogue reference: Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996 Hudson Hills Press in association with Madison Art Center Wisconsin, New York, 1997. Illustrated no. 160.2
