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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.393
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title
Economic Value Strained Honey
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Wirtschaftswert Schleuderhonig
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, object
Date
1979
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215393

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tin can with lid, inscribed in red fiber-tip ink, honey, paper label, stamped
Dimensions
11.6 x 10 x 10 cm (4 9/16 x 3 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on lid in red fiber-tip ink, u.c.: Joseph Beuys
  • inscription: on lid, red fiber-tip ink, German, in artist's hand: 1 Wirtschaftswert ["1 Economic Value"]
  • stamp: on paper label, c., blue ink: [cross]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Edition of 12, unnumbered
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 306, p. 250

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
1995.393
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/04/2001 - 12/16/2001
  • Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/18/2022 - 10/17/2022

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