Bark and booze–Olaf Breuning’s lush puppy

By Libby October 28, 2008

Olaf Breuning, Champagne Dog. The kits are hand-signed and numbered. Feathered mats, brass, champagne bottles, gold embossed wood box. 16 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches photograph and graphic drawing, Archival pigment on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 100% cotton rag paper. Box - 18 x 18 x 3 1/8 inches / Assembled size variable. Champagne bottles not included. — Olaf Breuning, Champagne Dog. The kits are hand-signed and numbered. Feathered mats, brass, champagne bottles, gold embossed wood box. 16 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches photograph and graphic drawing, Archival pigment on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 100% cotton rag paper. Box – 18 x 18 x 3 1/8 inches / Assembled size variable. Champagne bottles not included.

I know the crew at Cerealart didn’t know my daughter just got married at the Independence Seaport Museum on Saturday. But they announced this new, artist’s multiple last week that appropriately enough requires drinking multiple bottles of champagne! So I’m sending a toast their way!

The mischievous Olaf Breuning supplies a kit with a couple of doilies–the chapeau and jacket for dressing his Champagne Dog sculpture. You supply the champagne bottles! The kits are an an edition of 80.

We last came upon Breuning at the Whitney Biennial, where his army of illuminated tschotschkes stole the show over at the Armory part of the exhibit.

Breuning also has a show up at Metro Pictures, up until Nov. 8. So you can catch a peek and purchase the champagne puppies there. Or better yet, buy them right here in Philly and online at Cerealart. (Oh, and disable your pop-up blocker for info on Cerealart’s current warehouse sale).