2019.8.88: Untitled (barrage balloon designs atop bleed-through from previous page, left page); Untitled (barrage balloon designs atop bleed-through, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.8.88

People

Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Untitled (barrage balloon designs atop bleed-through from previous page, left page); Untitled (barrage balloon designs atop bleed-through, 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/369897

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Colored marker and blue pen on paper

Dimensions

open (approx.): 27.9 × 43.2 cm (11 × 17 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Right page; blue pen, crossed out with squiggly line in black pen: draw another "E[ye.] L[ooking]. U[p]. A[nd]. L[ooking]. D[own]." / (different colors)

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

2019.8.88

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 175-176

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

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  Object Number
  2019.8
  Artist

  Otto Piene

  Title

  Sketchbook: Gropius coffee service

  Classification
  Drawings

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