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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.27.61
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (blank with faint color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes and plan for garden installation, right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Tobago/Tète de Defense Paris/Bonn Competition/Japan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1983
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/376881

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored marker and black pen on paper
Dimensions
open (approx.): 36.5 × 57.8 cm (14 3/8 × 22 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in black pen: C-I-C / TETE DEFENSE // technology garden / information garden / nature/technology / nature/archit./technology // glass sculptures/houses / big wheels / industrial junk sculptures / overgrown cast iron / staging / fountains, ponds / stairs // [clockwise from top, around sketch:] clower beds / prism / glass house / bird sculptures / trees / stairs / flower beds / wheel / pond / water prisms / staging

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
2019.27.61
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 121-122

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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Verification Level

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