BR67.5: Archaic Group of Figures
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR67.5
- People
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Willi Baumeister, German (Stuttgart, Germany 1889 - 1955 Stuttgart, Germany)
- Title
- Archaic Group of Figures
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Figurengruppe archaisch
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1943
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222633
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal, and black chalk with stumping and erasing on brown modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 36 cm (10 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Baumeister 43
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stephen D. Paine Collection, Boston, gift; Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1967
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Ponert 1433
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Paine
- Accession Year
- 1967
- Object Number
- BR67.5
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, Willi Baumeister: Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen Gouachen und Collagen, DuMont (Köln, Germany, 1988), cat. no. 1433
- Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 143-145, cat. no. 6.2, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
- 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982
- Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992
- Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
Verification Level
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