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Artists›Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

1929–2022

Stockholm, Sweden

Post-Impressionism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

140

Works in Collection

316

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Paula Cooper Gallery

2025

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Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

Whitney Museum of American Art

2025

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Claes Oldenburg & Peter Moore

Paula Cooper Gallery

2025

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (140)

Pizza / Palette

1996 · Lithograph

sheet: 29 3/8 × 38 1/2" (74.6 × 97.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Saw / Tie

1994 · Charcoal and pastel on paper

Sheet: 49 3/4 × 38 1/4 in. (126.4 × 97.2 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Soft Saxophone (Black, Yellow, Red)

1992 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 34 7/8 × 43 3/4" (88.6 × 111.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Soft Pencil Sharpener

1989 · Lithograph

Sheet (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm) Image (sight): 31 1/2 × 41 in. (80 × 104.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Apple Core, Black & White State

1989 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 17 x 13 13/16" (43.2 x 35.1cm); sheet (irreg.): 31 1/2 x 22 1/2" (80 x 57.1cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Dropped Bowl, with Scattering Slices and Peels–In Advance of the Fountain for Metro-Dade Government Center

1988 · Offset lithograph

composition (irreg.): 31 × 22 3/16" (78.8 × 56.4 cm); sheet: 36 1/4 × 24 3/8" (92 × 61.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Colossal Monument with Mushroom and Screw (Project for John Cage Homage)

1987 · Felt-tip pen on paper

13 3/8 × 9 1/2" (34 × 24.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1986 · Pastel, charcoal, and pencil on paper

29 7/8 x 39 3/4" (75.5 x 100.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Movements and affiliations

Post-Impressionism

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Representation & Collections

Gallery

Paula Cooper Gallery

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Background

Education

Yale University

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Latin School of Chicago

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Exhibitions and timeline

Exhibition Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

2025

Group Exhibition Claes Oldenburg & Peter Moore

2025

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2025

Exhibition Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big