2019.13.107: Untitled (color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes with swan sketch, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.13.107

People

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

Title

Untitled (color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes with swan sketch, right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Black Swan/Helium Swan (unrealized project)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

1978

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/371659

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red marker on paper

Dimensions

open (approx.): 35.6 × 55.9 cm (14 × 22 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: In black pen: M[ü]nch[e]n. 3 VI '78 / Weißer Schwan / Lohegrin / Länge ca. 7 m / Spannweite 20 m / Höhe 5. 50 m // Stoffmenge* 250 m² / DM 4.000. -- // 5.5 / 7 [dimensions around swan] // Polyäthylen [sic] / schlauch DM 1.000. -- / Helium ( 40 / - 50 TKS) 5.000. -- // DM 10.000.-- // * Kunst[of]f., Nylon (leicht)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

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

2019.13.107

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 213-214

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.13

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Black Swan/Helium Swan (unrealized project)

  Drawings

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