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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.288.9.A-B
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title
American Hare Sugar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Amerikanischer Hasenzucker
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
object, multiple
Date
1974
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201696

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Package of sugar, stamped, in cardboard box with cotton wadding
Dimensions
box: 6 x 11 x 9 cm (2 3/8 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
sugar package: 4.5 x 6.5 x 0.2 cm (1 3/4 x 2 9/16 x 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue ink, back of sugar package: Joseph Beuys; graphite on bottom of box: Beuys
  • stamp: c. on sugar package, black ink, German: Hauptstrom ["main current"]
  • inscription: bottom of box, graphite, in artist's hand: IV/XV

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
IV / XV + 40
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 96b, p. 128

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.288.9.A-B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/04/2001 - 12/16/2001
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2017 - 09/27/2017

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