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A painting in shades of green and brown with blocks of gray, off-white and white.

The painting shows rough vertical rectangles of shades of dark and bright green, brown, white, off-white, and gray. Blocks of rough-edged gray are placed from the lower left across the upper center to the top right overlaying brown shapes, with smaller off-white rectangles interspersed. In the upper left corner thin green lines branch and twist out from a thicker green line. A white amorphous shape is positioned in the bottom center with lines that snake out from a horizontal straight line.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.17
People
Per Kirkeby, Danish (Copenhagen, Denmark 1938 - 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Title
Wood-Variation II
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Wald-Variation II
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1989
Culture
Danish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215461

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
200 x 130 cm (78 3/4 x 51 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Per Kirkeby, created, 1989; sold through Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne, 1993.
Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne, dealer representing the artist, sold to Novo Nordisk of North America, New York, 1993.
Novo Nordisk of North America, New York, purchased from Michael Werner Gallery, 1993; gift to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1993.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Novo Nordisk A/S
Copyright
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 36
  • Per Kirkeby, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz Verlag (Germany, 2009), cat. no. 41, p. 130, color repr.

Exhibition History

  • Per Kirkeby Retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 09/02/2008 - 01/11/2009
  • Per Kirkeby, Tate Modern, London, 06/17/2009 - 09/06/2009; Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 09/26/2009 - 01/10/2010
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2019 - 10/04/2021

Verification Level

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