1994.64: Untitled

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1994.64

People

Eva Hesse, American (Hamburg, Germany 1936 - 1970 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1966

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/301884

Location

Location

Level 1, Room 1100, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Sixties Experiment/Multiple Strategies

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray wash and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 35 x 27.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Bykert Gallery, New York, New York]. Paul F. Walter, New York, New York.
[Christie's, New York, sale 4 May 1994, lot 226, through Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, New York] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

NOTE: The Barbara Mathes Gallery purchased the drawing on behalf of the Harvard University Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Alpheus Hyatt Fund and the Margaret Fisher Fund

Copyright

© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Accession Year

1994

Object Number

1994.64

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Lucy Lippard, Eva Hesse (New York, NY, 1976), p. 79, no. 95, repr.
• Kathryn Ann Pasternak, "Sculptural Works by Eva Hesse: Inventiveness and Impermanence in Twentieth Century Art" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1985), Unpublished, pp. 1-167 passim
• James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 242, ill. p. 243
• 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), p. 81, ill.
• Elizabeth Sussman, ed., Eva Hesse, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (San Francisco and New Haven, 2002), cat. no. 61, p. 321, and p. 199, repr. pl. 68, p. 197
• Volker Rattemeyer and Renate Petzinger, Eva Hesse, exh. cat., Museum Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002), pp. 135, 175 and 176, repr. color p. 183 (no cat. no.)

Exhibition History

• Friends' Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 07/01/1977 - 10/31/1977
• Eva Hesse: A Retrospective of the Drawings, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 04/20/1982 - 05/30/1982; Renaissance Society, Chicago, 09/28/1982 - 11/07/1982; Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Houston, 11/20/1982 - 01/02/1983; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 01/18/1983 - 02/27/1983; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 03/15/1983 - 04/24/1983
• Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 04/15/1992 - 07/31/1992; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 10/15/1992 - 01/10/1993
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
• Eva Hesse, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 02/02/2002 - 05/19/2002; Museum Wiesbaden, 65185 Wiesbaden, 06/15/2002 - 10/13/2002; Tate Modern, London, 11/13/2002 - 03/09/2003
• Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
• 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/08/2024 - 10/07/2024
• Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2016 - 01/08/2017

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