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Fire Plug Souvenir - "August Chicago 1968"

Fire Plug Souvenir - "August Chicago 1968"

Claes Oldenburg (in 1968)

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Title Fire Plug Souvenir - "August Chicago 1968"
Material and technique Plaster, acrylic paint
Object type
Sculpture > Three-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Depth 16,5 cm
Width 18 cm
Height 20,5 cm
Artists Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Accession number BEK 1740 (MK)
Credits Gift F. Dosi-Delfini, 1981
Department Modern Art
Acquisition date 1981
Creation date in 1968
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Claes Oldenburg

Stockholm 1929 - New York 2022

Claes Oldenburg is of Swedish origin and studied art and literature at Yale University and subsequently, from 1950 to 1954, at the School of the Art Institute...

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