Sketchbook: Centerbeam, CAVS, Black Rose, Bremen Street Musicians, Icarus

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2019.14
People: Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Sketchbook: Centerbeam, CAVS, Black Rose, Bremen Street Musicians, Icarus
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: sketchbook
Date: 1978
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/363144

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 35.5 × 28.4 × 3 cm (14 × 11 3/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
Copyright: © Otto Piene Estate
Accession Year: 2019
Object Number: 2019.14
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Animating the Page

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2019.14: Sketchbook: Centerbeam, CAVS, Black Rose, Bremen Street Musicians, Icarus

Identification and Creation

Physical Descriptions

Provenance

Acquisition and Rights

Subjects and Contexts

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Identification and Creation

Physical Descriptions

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Subjects and Contexts

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