This is Plantoir, a large-scale sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen currently on display in the Museum’s Roof Garden.

 

 

Plantoir, 2001
Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden 1929), Coosje van Bruggen (American,
born the Netherlands 1942)
Stainless steel, aluminum, fiber-reinforced plastic,
painted with polyurethane enamel, edition 3/3
23 ft. 11 in. x 4 ft. 5 in. x 4 ft. 9 in. (7.24 x 1.35 x 1.45 m)
Collection Meredith Corporation,
courtesy of PaceWildenstein

 

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