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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.624
People
Anselm Kiefer, German (Donaueschingen, Germany born 1945)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Untitled #2
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1981
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295237

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and shellac on gelatin silver prints mounted to cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 59.6 x 115.7 cm (23 7/16 x 45 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: 2. Doppelseite / in colour / in Farbe
  • inscription: verso: [with arrow] oben (up)
  • inscription: verso: Doppelseite / in Farbe (in colour) [crossed out and upside down; difficult to decipher]
  • label: removed from backing board: A.P.F., Inc. / Framemakers & Conservators / 601 West 26th Street / Showroom: / 35 East 76th Street / at the / Carlyle Hotel / New York City / [with graphite inscription above: "2277 P.L.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Herbert C. Lee, Belmont, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert C. Lee
Copyright
© Anselm Kiefer
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.624
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anselm Kiefer, "Project, by Anselm Kiefer", Artforum (Summer 1981), vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 67-73, pp. 70-71 (color)
  • Laura Muir, Surface Tension: Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Broad Collections and the Harvard University Art Museums ("Anselm Kiefer and the Photograph"), brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • Surface Tension: Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Broad Collections and the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/06/2002 - 10/06/2002
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 01/01/2023

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