'Mermaid' by Claes Oldenburg is an etching produced in 1975, measuring 63 × 50 cm. A lightly rendered female figure with a fish tail curls in profile against a pale rectangular field, drawn in delicate grey-blue lines with the loose, gestural quality of a working sketch. The sheet carries a hand-written signature and is from a numbered edition. Oldenburg is best known for monumental public sculptures of consumer objects — works such as 'Lipstick (Ascending) On Caterpillar Tracks' — but printmaking offered him a smaller, more intimate register. The figure here sits outside his usual vocabulary of industrially scaled everyday goods, closer to the fantastical imagery he described as central to his practice: 'My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.' The sparseness of the composition — image set within field, field surrounded by wide cream paper — amplifies rather than diminishes the figure's lightness.