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A print of two irregularly shaped forms in black and shades of brown.

The print shows two irregularly shapes, on the left two prongs of different lengths hand down from a rounded dark brown central piece. The left prong is dark and ragged on the end, the center of the right prong is lighter brown, the end is tapered and dark brown. The object on the right is a light brown hour-glass shape, the top is smaller than the bottom and is partially covered with dark brown spots on the left and right sides.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.341
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Grafos Verlag, Vaduz
Published by Verlag Schellmann & Klüser
Title
Two Female Torsos
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Zwei weibliche Torsi
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, print
Date
1975
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218986

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in colored inks on cream wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 54 x 75.7 cm (21 1/4 x 29 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Beuys
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: 31/75

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
31 / 75
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 161, p. 171

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.341
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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

  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Reflections of Fascism, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, 12/17/2001 - 03/01/2002
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/10/2020 - 04/18/2022

Verification Level

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