Owl's Dream | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2023.285
People: Jean (Hans) Arp, French (Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany 1886 - 1966 Basel)
Title: Owl's Dream
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Songe de hibou
Original Language Title: Eulentraum
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1937-1938, cast 1970s
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/379939

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Plaster
Technique: Cast
Dimensions: 25.8 × 15 × 12 cm (10 3/16 × 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2023.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: GW 041

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Stiftung Arp e.V, Berlin/Rolandswerth
Accession Year: 2023
Object Number: 2023.285
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Arie Hartog and Veronika Wiegartz, ed., Arp and Company. The Cosmos of Forms and Studio Practice, exh. cat., Stiftung Arp e.V. and Gerhard Marcks-Stiftung (Bremen, 2022), pp. 81-82, ill. (color)

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2023.285: Owl's Dream