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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.12.49
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (stray black marks, left page); Untitled (taped in note, right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Bremen Town Musicians and other Centerbeam related items
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1976
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/371868

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black marker, paper, and tape on paper
Dimensions
open (approx.): 35.6 × 55.9 cm (14 × 22 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Taped-in note, in black marker:: - A Grimm Duo - / The Dog + The Sparrow - Brementown Musicians / 2 operas by Paul Earls / New England Chamber Opera Group / with the / MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies / Costumes by Otto Piene, Mira Cantor / Video dance by Gus Solomons, Jr./ (temp [illegible] . Premier - 8 p.m., Old South Church CHapel / New Year's Eve. / supported by National Endowment for the Arts / Mass. Council for [strikethrough] on the Arts / First Night 1977

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
2019.12.49
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 97-98

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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Verification Level

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