Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-2022) - Chicago Picasso Adapted to a Colossal Cufflink

As director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1972-1994, and later Chairman of North and South America at Sotheby’s until 2000, Richard Oldenburg was a towering figure in the art world in the later part of the 20th Century. He and his older brother, the renowned Pop Artist Claes Oldenburg, were born in Sweden and moved to Chicago as young children, when their father assumed the role of the city’s Swedish Consul General. Their influential mother was the opera singer and abstract painter Sigrid Lindforss.
While their career trajectories diverged at first, the two brothers both ended up living in New York City in the 1960s, Richard working in publishing at Doubleday and MacMillan and Claes emerging as an influential artist on the Pop Art scene. An exhibition opening of Claes’s work at MoMA brought their worlds together, with Richard reconnecting with a colleague who suggested a role in publications at the museum. Later assuming the role of Director, Richard would have a tremendous impact on the future of the institution, in terms of expanding its physical scale and international reputation.
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