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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.184
People
A. R. Penck, German (Dresden, Germany 1939 - 2017 Zurich, Switzerland)
Title
The Darkness of Power
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Die Dunkelheit der Macht
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1985
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221321

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 60.2 x 90.2 cm (23 11/16 x 35 1/2 in.)
sheet: 75.6 x 106.4 cm (29 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r: ar penck
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 19/100 Die Dunkelheit der Macht

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Federal Republic of Germany, presented by Barthold C. Witte on the occasion of the opening of the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Werner Otto Hall, 28 September 1991
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.184
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 33

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