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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.240
People
Bruno Jakob, Swiss (Geboren, Switzerland born 1954)
Title
A Couple of Wet Rocks
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1990
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/165337

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Invisible physical energy on white wove paper. [The actual drawing is a blank sheet of wove paper placed into a handmade glassine envelope which is itself placed into a handmade white wove paper envelope which is then placed into a handmade brown card folder. There is also another handmade glassine envelope which contains a white printed card. The text on the latter reads: "A Couple of Wet Rocks/(invisible drawing/energy)"]
Dimensions
12 x 9.5 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l. of drawing sheet: B. Jakob Sept. 1990
  • inscription: verso of invisible drawing sheet, upper center, graphite, in artist's hand: [An arrow pointing upwards] Top
  • inscription: verso of invisible drawing sheet, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: A Couple of Wet Rocks / Mappe #1 Green Prison Work / B. Jakob Sept. 1990 [some form of paraph?--a square with an arrow pointing into it] / Scuol / invisible Drawing/Energie / 120 x 95 mm
  • inscription: inside leaf of outermost carboard folder, graphite, in artist's hand: A Couple of Wet Rocks/(invisible drawing/Energy) / A Segment of the green / Prison Work / Scuol Sept. 1990 / Bruno Jakob
  • stamp: outside of handmade paper envelope: [Figure 1 in an oval]
  • stamp: center of outermost cardboard folder: [Figure 1 in an oval]
  • stamp: spine of the cardboard sleeve: [Figure 1 in an oval]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bruno Jacob, New York, New York, 1990, sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York 1991, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.240
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The work is composed of the following:
One outer brown cardboard sleeve (30.6 cm. x 23.6 cm.)
An inner brown cardboard folder in two parts
One handmade glassine envelope containing a white printed card
One handmade white wove paper envelope containing a handmade glassine envelope which contains a sheet of white wove wove paper with the invisible drawing on it.

Publication History

  • Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 153

Verification Level

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