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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.507
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Jonas Hafner, German (1940 -)
Published by Jonas Hafner, German (1940 -)
Title
Stillness
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Stille
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, drawing
Date
1984
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218859

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and watercolor on invitation card
Dimensions
sight: 24 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: c.c., red watercolor, handwritten, Russian, in artist's hand: ("Peace") [The Cyrillic characters written are m/ee/r. In Hafner's hand.]
  • inscription: l.c., red watercolor, handwritten, in artist's hand: Hafner 76
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 20/30
  • inscription: at l.c., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Jonas Hafner / 30 / 84 ["30" in u.l. quadrant of signature; "84" in l.l. quadrant of signature.]
  • inscription: c.l. and c.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Joseph Beuys ["Joseph" at c.l.; "Beuys" at c.r.]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
20 / 30
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 492, p. 368

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.507
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Invitation card reworked by Beuys and Hafner with graphite and watercolor. Invitation card: gray ink on white [wove?] paper, photomechanically reproduced.
Verso cannot be examined. 11/5/2001

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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

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