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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.9.1
People
Anna Blume, German (Bork, Germany 1937 - 2020 Cologne, Germany)
Bernhard Johannes Blume, German (Dortmund, Germany 1937 - 2011 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Mealtime or Self-Consciousness as Soup
Other Titles
Original Language Title: MAHLZEIT (oder: Selbstbewusstsein als Suppe)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1974
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219500

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 60.7 × 50.5 cm (23 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)
frame: 61.1 × 51 × 3 cm (24 1/16 × 20 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite on verso at l.r.: BJBlume 74
  • label: on backing board, German: Bernh. Joh. Blume (mit Anna Blume)/"MAHLZEIT"/(oder: Selbstbewusstsein als Suppe)/Format 50.5 x 60.7 cm/ 6-er Sequenz/Auflage 4/5/ [Orientation and installation diagram].
  • inscription: on backing board at l.l. and c., graphite, in artist's hand: 4/5 / 1(circled) [edition no. and number in sequence]
  • inscription: on backing board at l.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: BJBlume 74
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 4/5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb and from the Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.9.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
No. 1 of six-part sequence of photographs
See orientation and installation diagram on verso

Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 41

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/24/2023 - 10/23/2023

Verification Level

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