"He was recovering from a fall and died at his home and studio in New York," Pace Gallery said in a message to AFP.
Its founder, Arne Glimcher, hailed "one of the most radical artists of the 20th century", who "changed the very nature of sculpture" and whose "influence is still perceptible today".
Burgers, an ice cream cone or an electrical outlet: these gigantic sculptures have made Oldenburg an artist appreciated by critics and the public.
His works were often seen by millions of people in the public places where they were exhibited.
The "Plantoir, bleu", a sculpture by American pop-art artist Claes Oldenburg, who died at the age of 93 on July 18, 2022, displayed in the gardens of Rockefeller Center in New York, March 22, 2022 Michael M. Santiago GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP
Among them, the lipstick on the tracks of a tank, displayed on the campus of Yale University in the late 1960s, caused a sensation and became a symbol for opponents of the American war in Vietnam. .
A clothespin, on display in Philadelphia, also marked the bicentenary of the American Declaration of Independence in 1976.
From the 1970s, he had worked as a duo with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009.
A work by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on April 28, 2016 in San Francisco Josh Edelson AFP
"I'm for art that meddles with everyday shit and still comes out on top. I'm for art that mimics the human, that is comical, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary", he wrote in his manifesto in 1961.
Claes Oldenburg has notably been the subject of exhibitions at the MoMA or the Whitney Museum in New York, or even at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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