2019.2.7: Untitled (sketch of sleeping dog in figure's lap, left page); Untitled (portrait of a female figure [Mrs. Menzel], right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.2.7

People

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

Title

Untitled (sketch of sleeping dog in figure's lap, left page); Untitled (portrait of a female figure [Mrs. Menzel], right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1939-1944

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/373414

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on paper

Dimensions

open (approx): 15.6 × 43.2 cm (6 1/8 × 17 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Left page, upper left, in graphite: [name of dog?]
• inscription: Left page, lower right, in graphite: OLP / 7.1.'44
• inscription: Right page, upper right, in graphite: M. Menzel
• inscription: Right page, lower right, in graphite: OP. [graphic signature] / Otto Piene / 12.11.1939

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

2019.2.7

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 13-14

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.2

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

  Drawings

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