Untitled (charcoal transfer, left page); Untitled (study of seated female nude, right page) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2019.5.12
People: Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Untitled (charcoal transfer, left page); Untitled (study of seated female nude, right page)
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Postwar Studies
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: sketchbook page, drawing
Date: 1948-c.1957
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/373843

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: open (approx.): 16 × 43.2 cm (6 5/16 × 17 in.)

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: 2019.5.12
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Pages 23-24

Subjects and Contexts

Animating the Page

Related Works

2019.5
Otto Piene

Sketchbook: Postwar Studies
Drawings

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