Claes Oldenburg

Stockholm, Sverige · b. 1929 — d. 2022

Painting & Sculpture Drawings & Prints Fluxus Collection Pop Art Architecture & Design

Claes Oldenburg American, born Sweden, 1929-2022

Timeline

Born 1929 — Died 2022

1950s

1958

Self Portrait

1959

Two Heads with Speech

1959

"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun

1960s

1960

Empire Sign - With M and I Deleted

Big Cardboard Flag

Woman on a Bus

1960

New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture

+87

1970s

System of Iconography - Plug, Mouse, Good Humor, Lipstick, Switches

Osaka Japan Expo

Giant 3-Way Plug Scale 2/3

Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness

+26

1980s

Screwarch Bridge State II

1980

Screwarch Bridge, state II

1984

Proposal for a Monument to the Survival of the University of El Salvador: Blasted Pencil (That Still Writes)

1986

Characters and Props from "Il Corso del Coltello" Along the Canale do San Marco, Coltello Ship in "Background - Version II"

1990s

1992

Soft Saxophone (Black, Yellow, Red)

1996

Pizza / Palette

1997

Proposal for a Sculpture in the Form of a Faucet and Shower Hose for Stockholm Harbor

Works

135 artworks

False Food Selection

, 1966

False Food Selection

, 1966

Claes Oldenburg

Timeline

Works

False Food Selection

False Food Selection

Tea Bag from Four on Plexiglas

Cube Tap (Plug)

Giant Soft Fan

Wedding Souvenir

Giant Postcard: Dawn from London Knees 1966

Colossal Fag End, Dream State

Soft Drainpipe - Blue (Cool) Version

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings

Watt's Spots

Stripper with Battleship: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara

Claes Oldenburg: Projects for Monuments

Colossal Fag Ends, Installed on Doberman Estate, Westphalia, with Sheep-Fag End Watching

Scissors as Monument from National Collection of Fine Arts Portfolio

Boom (folio 11) from Stamped Indelibly

Plate (folio 10 verso) from Stamped Indelibly

Scissors to Cut Out from National Collection of Fine Arts Portfolio

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings

In-text plate (folios 77 verso and 78 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings

Dropped Cup of Coffee: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara

Woman Figure with Medusa Ornaments

Nose Handkerchief