A gold colored pail with a lid and handle and an inscription.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The gold colored pail is round with a lid attached with two clamps. It has a semi-circular thin metal handle attached at either side. The pail is signed in black ink near the top, it reads Joseph Beuys. In the middle of the pail are the words Gib mir Honig.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.392
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title
Give me Honey
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Gib mir Honig
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
object, multiple
Date
1979
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215392

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tin container with lid, inscribed in black and red fiber-tip inks
Dimensions
16 x 13 x 13 cm (6 5/16 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black fiber-tip ink at u.c.: Joseph Beuys
  • inscription: c., black fiber-tip ink, German, in artist's hand: gib mir Honig ["give me honey"]
  • inscription: c., black fiber-tip ink, German, in artist's hand: gib mir Honig ["give me honey"]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Edition of 12
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 303, p. 249

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
1995.392
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, 04/10/2019 - 10/08/2019

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