Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) - Museum á la Mode

Claes Oldenburg (1929), Museum à la Mode, 1994.

Color-offset print on cardboard, 45.1 x 36.2 cm on 99.2 x 68.8 cm, edition differs from illustration, good condition.

Provenance: Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.

Signed and numbered.

From the MMK Graphic Portfolio of the MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main. Published in the Achenbach Art Edition, 1994, in an edition of 175 + XXV copies.

Biography
Claes Oldenburg, born in Stockholm as the son of a diplomat, grew up in Sweden and the USA. He studied at Yale University in New Haven until 1954 and then attended the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1956 he moved to New York City, where he still lives today. Oldenburg is regarded as a leading figure of American Pop Art. He is known for his reproductions of everyday objects and foods, which he distorts through monumental scale or by the use of fabrics, for example. Thus, in 1977 for the Skulptur Projekte in Münster he created three giant billiard balls, and for documenta 7 in 1982 in Kassel a 12-meter-tall pickaxe.