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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR67.5
People
Willi Baumeister, German (Stuttgart, Germany 1889 - 1955 Stuttgart, Germany)
Title
Archaic Group of Figures
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Figurengruppe archaisch
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1943
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222633

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal, and black chalk with stumping and erasing on brown modern laid paper
Dimensions
26.5 x 36 cm (10 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Baumeister 43

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stephen D. Paine Collection, Boston, gift; Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1967

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Ponert 1433

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Paine
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
BR67.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, Willi Baumeister: Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen Gouachen und Collagen, DuMont (Köln, Germany, 1988), cat. no. 1433
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 143-145, cat. no. 6.2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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