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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.58
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Grafos Verlag, Vaduz
Title
Swan
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Schwan
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
print, multiple
Date
1980
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218262

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, aquatint, and lithograph printed in colored inks on white paper laid down to gray wove paper
Technique
Etching, aquatint and lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 56.5 x 44.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
sheet laid down: 36 x 27.4 cm (14 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.c.: Joseph Beuys
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 13/75

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
13 / 75 plus XXV plus 1 a.p. plus 30 A.P.
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 361, p. 291

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Gift of Charlotte Reber
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.58
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anja Chávez, ed., Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990, exh. cat., Davis Museum at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2003), cat. no. 62, color illus.

Exhibition History

  • Two and One: Printmaking in Germany 1945-1990, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 10/09/2003 - 01/18/2004

Verification Level

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