- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2019.11.59
- People
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Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Untitled (notes and pressed flowers, two-page spread)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Walker Art Center
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook page, drawing
- Date
- 1977
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370115
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Blue ink and pressed flowers on paper
- Dimensions
- open (approx.): 35.3 × 56.5 cm (13 7/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Left page, in blue ink: Prades / VIII-14-77 / Solution: / 1.) just four (4) / strong masts / 2.) stretched between them / (high) a grid of stranded wires / 3.) air inlet necks / of HORTA FLOWER / hung like wind socks / from two masts / 4.) tips* hung from wires / attached to / wire grid / 5.) lower tips moving (entirely?) / freely
- inscription: Right page, u.l., in blue ink: * / moving / partly / freely //
- inscription: Right page, l..c., in blue ink: flowers from Chloe / (Gorges du Tarn) / 11 VIII-77
- Provenance
- Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.
- 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
- 2019.11.59
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Pages 117-118
- Related Works
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