The Collector: Claes Oldenburg's, Mu-Mu, 1961

09.02.2024

Claes Oldenburg's, Mu-Mu, 1961 in the living room of Villa Menafoglia Litta, collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo’s 18th century home in Varese, Italy.  The sculpture constructed from muslin soaked in plaster painted with enamel was first exhibited in the artist's seminal 1961 exhibition The Store and is now in the collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles .⁠

Photograph: Giuseppe Panza, The Panza Collection, 1984. Courtesy the Oldenburg van Bruggen Studio Copyright 1961 Claes Oldenburg. ⁠