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Pop artist Claes Oldenburg died

7/18/2022, 5:10:14 PM


He was considered one of the last icons of pop art. Now Claes Oldenburg has died in New York. He was 93 years old.

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Claes Oldenburg (2011)

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The pop art artist Claes Oldenburg is dead. He died in New York on Monday at the age of 93, said a spokeswoman for the Pace Gallery of the German Press Agency in New York.

US media had previously reported on the artist's death.

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