1995.257.A-D: Object to Smear and Turn
MultiplesThe artwork contains two objects, an open tin can containing lubricant and a screw driver. The tin can is silver and has a brown cross, in the orientation of an addition sign, hand painted on the front. The tin is open and shows the yellowed lubricant inside. The screw driver has a brown handle and a flat-tip.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.257.A-D
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Museumsverein Mönchengladbach
- Title
- Object to Smear and Turn
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Objekt zum Schmieren und Drehen
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- multiple, object
- Date
- 1972
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219196
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Tin can, lubricant, screwdriver, brown oil paint ("Browncross")
- Dimensions
- 13 x 5.5 cm (5 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: on printed card
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 64 / 100, plus a few unnumbered a.p.
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 53, p. 89
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
- 1995.257.A-D
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- In/Tuition: a seminar's engagement with Joseph Beuys, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/1997 - 12/07/1997
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 10/13/2016
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