1995.316: Green Violin
MultiplesThe violin is wooden, it is painted in a rich, flat, green which obscures the wood grain of the instrument, it has strings and a round stamp in the lower right corner which reads “Fluxus Zone West.”
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.316
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Schellmann
- Title
- Green Violin
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Grüne Geige, Musik als grün
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- sculpture, multiple
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219164
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Violin, green paint
- Dimensions
- 9 x 60 x 21 cm (3 9/16 x 23 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 1 (?) / 24 (approx. 12 produced)
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 135, p. 152
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
- 1995.316
- 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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016
Verification Level
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