They Got What Was Coming to Them | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.534
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title: They Got What Was Coming to Them
Other Titles: Original Language Title: das Fett dafür
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, book
Date: 1985
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/218868

Physical Descriptions

Medium: fat and graphite on p. 241-245 of publication "Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945-1985"
Dimensions: 29.6 x 21 x 4.5 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 25 / 40
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 545, p. 398

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.534
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

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