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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.115
People
Eva Hesse, American (Hamburg, Germany 1936 - 1970 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1963-64
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191381

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and black ink on white wove paper
Dimensions
15.8 × 15.2 cm (6 1/4 × 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • gallery label: center top of frame backing board: Eva Hesse/UNTITLED/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6"; 16.5 x 15.2 cm./HESS-0612
  • gallery label: center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6 inches
  • stamp: lower center of frame backing board, blue ink: ROBERT MILLER GALLERY/41 EAST 57th STREET/NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022
  • gallery label: lower center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/gouache on paper/6-1/2 x 6 inches/EH99 3
  • inscription: lower center of backing board of frame, black ink: HESS-0612
  • stamp: l.l. corner of frame backing board, black ink: Image of two armadillos
  • stamp: lower center of frame backing board, black ink: knight works inc./conservation matting & framing
  • stamp: l.r. corner of frame backing board, black ink: DENGLAS/DENG [remaining text cut-off by masking tape]
  • label: u.r. corner of frame backing board: red circular label

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California]. [Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York]. [Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

NOTE: Provenance information derived from gallery labels on the backing board of the frame.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.115
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kathryn Ann Pasternak, "Sculptural Works by Eva Hesse: Inventiveness and Impermanence in Twentieth Century Art" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1985), Unpublished, pp. 1-167 passim
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 54, 133, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 54 [detail], pl. 63 on p. 133
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 3, Page 54

Exhibition History

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