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Claes Oldenburg

Oldenburg, Claes Thure

American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

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This sculpture depicts a dessert with layers of a substance like white whipped cream resting on a textured brown base that looks like cake, with dark, fudge-like sauce dripping downward. There is another small brown cake-like section on top of the dollops of cream. At the bottom of the sculpture, the dark sauce splatters outward.
Claes Oldenburg, Michael Cascadden, Richard Garst, Stephen Glassman, Gemini G.E.L., Profiterole, 1989, published 1990, hand-painted cast aluminum, Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.104.17

Profiterole

Claes Oldenburg, Michael Cascadden, Richard Garst, Stephen Glassman, Gemini G.E.L. · 1989, published 1990 · hand-painted cast aluminum ·  Accession ID  1990.104.17