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Two rectangular zinc boxes, side by side. The left box is coated with yellow sulphur, and has a small patch of gauze in the lower left-hand corner.

Two open rectangular boxes pictured birds-eye, side by side. The box on the left has a pale yellow sulphur coating and a gauze patch in the lower left hand corner. The box on the right is uncoated and dark metallic grey.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.227.A-B
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Tangente, Heidelberg
Title
Sulphur-Covered Zinc Box (Plugged Corner)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Schwefel überzogene Zinkkiste (tamponierte Ecke)
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
sculpture, multiple
Date
1970
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219036

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Zinc box, sulphur, gauze, stamped
Dimensions
63 x 30.5 x 18 cm (24 13/16 x 12 x 7 1/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
174 / 200 planned (150 completed)
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 21, p. 60-61

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
1995.227.A-B
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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

  • Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/28/2006 - 03/08/2006
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/27/2017 - 04/12/2018

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