Pastry Case, I

Claes Oldenburg · 1961-62

Before you is Pastry Case, I, by Claes Oldenburg, nineteen sixty-one. Burlap and muslin were soaked in plaster and painted with enamel, then set on metal bowls and ceramic plates inside a glass case — a shop counter of food that cannot be eaten, made the year he opened a mock storefront on the Lower East Side.

Medium Burlap and muslin soaked in plaster, painted with enamel, metal bowls, and ceramic plates in glass-and-metal case · Dimensions 20 3/4 x 30 1/8 x 14 3/4" (52.7 x 76.5 x 37.3 cm) · Credit The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 408: Black Girl's Window, Artist's Shit No. 014

More by Claes Oldenburg here: Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers), Giant Soft Fan