2019.8.80: Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2019.8.80
- People
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Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)
- 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/369889
Physical Descriptions
- 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: Left page; blue pen: think of daytime / sensation / that match / the nighttime effect / (reflexion / magnesium light // Another string of lights / (with the lights the main / feature) / "freely" attached to a / helium-filled hose / (reverse the [symbols for olympic rainbow]: / main thing lights, / balloon is graceful / carrier moving / NICELY) //
- inscription: Right page; blue pen: furthermore: / let's get on / with the / flaming rainbow // (Back to Aspen or, rather, / what I'm not doing / in ASPEN) / further / ways / of draping, etc. / barrage bal.[loon]s / EYES / FLOWERS / ANIMALS ("MARDI GRAS - / NEW ORLEANS / STYLE" - "SKY ART 1") / FISH (with / long finns [sic], / possibly jelly fish) / FACES //
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2019.
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
- 2019.8.80
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pages 159-160
Subjects and Contexts
- Animating the Page
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Verification Level
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