1995.227.A-B: Sulphur-Covered Zinc Box (Plugged Corner)
MultiplesTwo 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
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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
- multiple, sculpture
- 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
- Permissions
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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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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
Verification Level
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