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A violin painted green.

The 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
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
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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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim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 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016

Verification Level

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