Claes Oldenburg’s most incredible sculptures – in pictures
The acclaimed pop artist, who has died at age 93, specialised in monumental sculptures where mundane objects suddenly became larger than life
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Apple Core at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy
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Big Sweep at the Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Photograph: robertharding/Alamy
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Plantoir Blue at Rockefeller Center, New York
Photograph: Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock
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Clothespin at the Center City section of Philadelphia
Photograph: Dan Loh/AP
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Bottle of Notes at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England
Photograph: Robert Smith/Alamy
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Ice-cream Cone at shopping mall Neumarkt Galerie, Germany
Photograph: Joern Sackermann/Alamy
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Matches at Barcelona, Spain
Photograph: mauritius images GmbH/Alamy
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Cupid’s Span at the Rincon Park on the Embarcadero, San Francisco
Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy
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Typewriter Eraser and Scale at the CityCenter, Las Vegas
Photograph: Graham Whitby Boot/Sportsphoto/Allstar
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The Binoculars Building, a collaboration between Frank Gehry and Claes Oldenburg
Photograph: Stephen McLaren
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Free Stamp at city hall, Cleveland, Ohio
Photograph: George Rose/Getty Images
