Claes Oldenburg: Radical pop art sculptor dies at 93

Claes Oldenburg once said: "My intention is to make an everyday object that eludes definition"

Influential Swedish-born sculptor Claes Oldenburg - whose giant works of everyday objects delight millions - has died in his New York City home aged 93.

The Pace Gallery that represented him said he had recently suffered a fall.

It described him as "one of the most radical artists of the 20th Century... in the development of pop art".

Oldenburg, who moved to the US in the 1950s, is known for his trademark works depicting clothes pegs, baseball bats, hamburgers and electric plugs.

Many of his sculptures adorn public spaces in the US, UK and around the world.

Oldenburg made Bottle of Notes, which sits outside the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

One of Oldenburg's most famous sculptures is the 14m (46ft) steel Clothespin (clothes peg) in Philadelphia

"My intention is to make an everyday object that eludes definition," he was quoted as saying in The New York Times.

Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009.

Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen's Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture in Minneapolis

Apple Core, a sculpture by Oldenburg and van Bruggen at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

In a BBC interview in 2015, Oldenburg said: "At the end of the '60s, I started to become interested in architecture and in turning objects into architecture.

"So I made a number of studies of buildings that I would propose for cities in the form of objects. There's a whole collection of them, including several for New York."

Plantoir Blue at the Rockefeller Center in New York

Big Sweep at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado

His proposals took the form of self-consciously absurd drawings. In one sketch from 1965, for instance, he presented a gargantuan teddy bear sitting slumped at the north end of Central Park - turning the entire city into a playground.

The sculptor himself never believed that his tongue-in-cheek ideas would actually be built - he was more interested in creating playful ideas that were at the same time amusing and slightly sinister.

The Typewriter Eraser sculpture in Las Vegas

Cupid's Span, by Oldenburg and van Bruggen, located in San Francisco

The Binoculars Building in Los Angeles, a collaboration between Oldenburg and architect Frank Gehry