From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Capri Battery

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.552.A-C
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edizioni Lucio Amelio
Title: Capri Battery
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Capri-Batterie
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, sculpture
Date: 1985
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/215327

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Light bulb, socket, printed card, printed wooden box

Dimensions

box: 18.4 x 18.4 x 18.4 cm (7 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: on card in graphite at c.: Joseph Beuys
inscription: c. on card, graphite, in artist's hand: 162/200

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 162 / 200 plus a few a.p.
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 546, p. 399

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.552.A-C
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Exhibition History

In/Tuition: a seminar's engagement with Joseph Beuys, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/1997 - 12/07/1997

Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/04/2001 - 12/16/2001

32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

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