2013.27.1-15: Higher Beings Command
PrintsPortfolo 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
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Sigmar Polke, German (Oels, Germany (now Olesnica, Poland) 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
- Permissions
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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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Verification Level
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