Oldenburg, who died in July this year at the age of 93, was one of the leading artists of the late 20th century. If you know his work it will likely be for the colourful oversized outdoor sculptures of everyday items situated in many urban locations around the world, which he created from the late 1970s in collaboration with his wife Coosje van Bruggen.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Shuttlecocks (1994)
You might have seen photos of their giant shuttlecocks on the lawn outside the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, for example. Or the huge blue trowel at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller in The Netherlands. Or the half-buried red hand saw at the International Exhibition Centre in Tokyo.