2019.8.81: Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2019.8.81
- 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
- sketchbook page, drawing
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369890
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: SHADOWS (follow / Hon[olulu]. H[awai]i. observ.s / & flight-to-Aspen * / /shadows of tws / on snow phenomenon) / SNOW / WHITE / BRIGHT // BUT that * will be in June! // NOT ASPEN {along left margin to describe the following text] / large (3-dimensional) / PICTURES (paintings) / outdoors / 100, 300, 1000' high / p.c. a huge immaculate / white flat plane, erect / a huge mildly loose / "framed" red cloth / vertical / with a black balloon / spherical / moving before its center
- inscription: Right page; blue pen: possibly with a device / emitting dark smoke // AND: SILVER ballon carpte / oriented vertically // Back to the idea of / CITY FLOWERS / VERY TANGIBLE // a) SOLID 1.000 high // b) made of canvas/sails / MOVING // a) a gold / b silver / c white / d rainbow colors / b) a-d +red! / blue! / over
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
- 2019.8.81
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pages 161-162
Subjects and Contexts
- Animating the Page
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Verification Level
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