Profiterole
started 1989, published 1990
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View on museum website →Medium
acrylic paint on cast aluminum
Dimensions
overall: 14.6 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (5 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Accession Number
1994.68.3
About the Artist
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg, born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden, to diplomat Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth Lindforss, spent much of his childhood abroad before his family settled in Chicago in 1936, where his father served as Swedish consul general. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, then studied literature and art history at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, followed by classes at the ...