We Won't Do It without the Rose | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1996.155
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title: We Won't Do It without the Rose
Other Titles: Original Language Title: ohne die Rose tun wir's nicht
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: print, multiple
Date: 1972
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/218339

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Color offset
Technique: Offset print
Dimensions: 80 x 55.8 cm (31 1/2 x 21 15/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 80 plus XX
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 61, p. 93

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: 1996.155
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Lisa Lee, Isa Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver, University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London, 2017), pp. 68-69, fig. 45, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007

Verification Level

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1996.155: We Won't Do It without the Rose