claes-oldenburg-american-b-1929-i-butt-for-gantt-i
Lot 3267
Claes Oldenburg (American, b. 1929), Butt for Gantt
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Lithograph in colors, 1990, pencil signed and numbered 119/250 lower margin, from the Harvey Gantt Portfolio, alternate title Cigarette Butt, with artist's blindstamp at lower right, full margins, framed.

Image size 10 x 10 in.; Frame dimensions 21 1/4 x 20 in.

From the Personal Collection of Pat and the late Sid Oakley, Founders of Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, North Carolina

This print was made to support the campaign of Harvey Gantt (b. 1943) for a US Senate seat in North Carolina in 1990. Gantt is an architect and politician who was the first Black mayor of Charlotte from 1983-1987, and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte was named in his honor.

Very good estate condition; not examined out of frame.