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Portfolo cover with black spine and square brown paper sticker, printed with black ink, which reads Sigmar Polke / ... Höhere Wesen befehlen / 1968 / Edition Block Berlin

Portfolo cover with black spine and square brown paper sticker in the center, printed with text in Serif with black ink. It reads Sigmar Polke / ... Höhere Wesen befehlen / 1968 / Edition Block Berlin.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.27.1-15
People
Sigmar Polke, German (Oels (Silesia), Germany 1941 - 2010 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Higher Beings Command
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Hoehere Wesen befehlen
Classification
Prints
Work Type
portfolio
Date
1968
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/348394

Physical Descriptions

Medium
14 offset lithographs in black ink on beige paper with text sheet in the publisher's cloth-covered cardboard portfolio, pastedown title label on front board, colophon label on verso, and certificate label on inside rear cover.
Dimensions
35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Rene Block, Berlin]. Private Collection, Germany. [Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Copyright
© The Estate of Sigmar Polke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.27.1-15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 10/13/2016

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