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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.47.35.8
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Inserted page
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Gordes/Cloudburst
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
archival material
Date
1994
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370946

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Typed black ink on paper
Dimensions
27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto, in typed black ink: The field of snow ate snow / until its cheeks blew out whiter than the snow it ate. / Quacking shadows of birds broke over the untouched field. / A blond woman wearing a red coat - irrideschent [sic] red - / fell belly up into the snow. / She dragged her wide coat sleeves back and forth / until her snow trench became a valentine. / The woman pondered the sequence in French:/ champs de neige, mangeant la neige, / les choux, les alles d' oiseaux, / le manteau rouge. / les massacres au jour du Saint Valentin qui rougissaient / la neige.

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
2019.47.35.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Between pages 69 and 70

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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