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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.205
People
Anselm Kiefer, German (Donaueschingen, Germany born 1945)
Title
The Heavenly Palaces: Merkabah
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Die Himmelspaläste: Merkaba
Classification
Books
Work Type
artist's book
Date
1990
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299983

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ash and acrylic on gelatin silver prints mounted to bound cardboard
Dimensions
closed: 100.8 × 71 × 8 cm (39 11/16 × 27 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
open (2 pages wide): 100.3 × 142.2 cm (39 1/2 × 56 in.)
open with foldout (3 pages wide): 100.3 × 195.6 cm (39 1/2 × 77 in.)
box: 17.8 × 86.4 × 118.1 cm (7 × 34 × 46 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marian Goodman Gallery

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in honor of Arend Oetker through the generosity of a group of Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Copyright
© Anselm Kiefer
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.205
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 116-117, ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 26
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 240, ill.

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