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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.168
People
Bruno Goller, German (Gummersbach, Germany 1901 - 1998 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title
Playing Child
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Spielendes Kind
Alternate Title: Spielendes Mädchen
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1957
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362177

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
125 × 70 × 4 cm (49 3/16 × 27 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Framed: 120 × 65 × 5 cm (47 1/4 × 25 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in black paint: Bruno Goller

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich], sold; to Elisabeth von Dehn (2011-2018), gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elisabeth von Dehn in honor of her husband Dr. Henrik von Dehn
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.168
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bruno Goller, Bruno Goller: Bilder Zeichnungen, Edition Bahnhof Rolandseck (Rolandseck, Germany, 1991), pp. 86-87, ill. (color)
  • Anita Eckstaedt, Paul Klee und Bruno Goller, Psychoanalytische Werkbetrachtungen, Königshausen und Neumann (Würzburg, 2008), p. 88

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/14/2025; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/01/2022

Verification Level

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