Harvard Art Museums > 2013.27.5: Cotton-Wool Palm Tree Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cotton-Wool Palm Tree (Sigmar Polke) , 2013.27.5,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/348399. The black and white lithograph shows a roughly formed vertical of cotton wool on a dark foreground with the top opened out and pulled down to form the shape of a palm tree. Text at the bottom reads “Wattepalme.” Identification and Creation Object Number 2013.27.5 People Sigmar Polke, German (Oels (Silesia), Germany 1941 - 2010 Cologne, Germany) Title Cotton-Wool Palm Tree Other Titles Original Language Title: Wattepalme Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1968 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/348399 Physical Descriptions Medium Offset lithograph in black ink on beige art paper Dimensions 30 x 21 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/4 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 2013.27.5 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Related Works 2013.27.1-15 Sigmar Polke Higher Beings Command Prints Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu