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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.223.6
People
Dieter Roth, Swiss (Hanover, Germany 1930 - 1998 Basel, Switzerland)
Title
Self-Portrait, from the portfolio "Artist Mail"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Selbstportrait, aus "Künstlerpost"
Series/Book Title: Artist Mail [Künstlerpost]
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
altered readymade
Date
1969
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215499

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Chocolate, green paint, wood
Dimensions
19.9 x 28.4 x 1.5 cm (7 13/16 x 11 3/16 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso u. in black fiber-tip ink: DIETER ROTH
  • inscription: verso, u.l. to u.r., black fiber-tip ink, in artist's hand: 10/100 DIETER ROTH 69.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Jose Soriano Fund
Copyright
© Dieter Roth Estate / Hauser & Wirth
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.223.6
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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

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