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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.370
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edizioni Lucio Amelio
Title
Levitazione in Italia
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, print
Date
1978
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219156

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Offset photolithograph printed in colored inks on card, mounted to off-white wove paper
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 36.9 x 23.2 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
mount: 60 x 42.1 cm (23 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.c.: Joseph Beuys
  • inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 31/200

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
31 / 200
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 247, p. 222

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
1995.370
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim
  • Alison Ferris and Tom Gunning, The Disembodied Spirit, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 2003), cat. no. 48, color ill.

Exhibition History

  • The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 09/25/2003 - 12/07/2003; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 03/05/2004 - 05/23/2004; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, 09/11/2004 - 11/28/2004

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