- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2019.8.69
- People
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Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Untitled (notes and bleed-through of previous page, two-page spread)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Gropius coffee service
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing, sketchbook page
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369878
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Colored marker and blue pen on paper
- Dimensions
- open (approx.): 27.9 × 43.2 cm (11 × 17 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Across two-page spread, in blue pen: COULD THE / PRISMS OF THE STAR / CLUSTER BE CUT AND DIRECTED / SO THAT THEY PROJECT SPECTRA THAT, AS A GROUP, FORM (THE SHAPE OF) A RAINBOW?
- inscription: Right page, c., in black marker: ASPEN / 3-29/31-74
- Provenance
- Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2019.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
- Copyright
- © Otto Piene Estate
- Accession Year
- 2019
- Object Number
- 2019.8.69
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Pages 137-138
- Subjects and Contexts
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Animating the Page
- Related Works
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