2013.27.14: The Whip
PrintsThe black and white lithograph shows a multi-strand whip with a dark handle against a light background. The strands of the whip have been spread out to the left of the handle, small square photographs of the same man making different faces in each, have been attached to the ends of some of the strands. Text at the bottom reads “Peitsche.”
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2013.27.14
- People
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Sigmar Polke, German (Oels, Germany (now Olesnica, Poland) 1941 - 2010 Cologne, Germany)
- Title
- The Whip
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Die Peitsche
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1968
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/348408
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
- 2013.27.14
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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