Claes Oldenburg obituary

Pop artist famed for his ‘soft sculptures’ and outsized monuments to everyday objectsHad the ideas of Claes Oldenburg been realised, Piccadilly Circus would have had as its hub not a 19th-century sculpture of Eros but a cluster of 8m-high orange lipsticks or a skyscraper-sized pair of women’s knees. Both projects were imagined for the site by the Swedish-American artist and sculptor, who has died at the age of 93.In London in 1966, Oldenburg found himself captivated by what he