Pork Chops Compared to Breasts, from Notes in Hand
A playful and irreverent work by pop art pioneer Claes Oldenburg, this offset lithograph features the artist's characteristic hand-drawn, casual style to juxtapose two seemingly unrelated forms — pork chops and breasts — inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between the everyday and the erotic. Printed in colors and collaged onto Dacapo Art paper, the work is part of Oldenburg's *Notes in Hand* series, which mimics the spontaneous quality of personal sketches and handwritten observations. The full margins frame the intimate, notebook-like composition, reinforcing Oldenburg's ongoing fascination with transforming mundane objects into vehicles for wit and artistic commentary.
- Medium
- Offset lithograph in colors, colléd to Dacapo Art paper, with full margins.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
October 17, 2018
Spotted works by Claes Oldenburg
Artists in conversation
Andy Warhol
American · b. 1928
Warhol similarly elevated mundane consumer objects and food imagery into fine art through printmaking and bold graphic techniques, sharing Oldenburg's Pop Art sensibility and irreverent attitude toward the boundaries between high art and everyday culture.
Tom Wesselmann
American · b. 1931
Wesselmann is renowned for his Pop Art works that explicitly juxtapose food imagery with the erotic female body, directly paralleling Oldenburg's playful comparison of pork chops and breasts in terms of both subject matter and provocative humor.
Roy Lichtenstein
American · b. 1923
Lichtenstein shared Oldenburg's commitment to printmaking and casual drawn aesthetics within Pop Art, using a deliberately hand rendered yet reproducible visual language to transform commonplace subjects into witty and culturally charged imagery.
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