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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.689.A-D
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title: 2- +
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 2- + (Flaschen-Filz Objekt)
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1972
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/189220

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Glass bottles with stoppers, dried contents, felt, white wove paper, oil

Dimensions

irregular: 18.3 x 18 x 15 cm (7 3/16 x 7 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in black ink on bottom of glass bottle (.A): Beuys 1972

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.689.A-D
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 115-116, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000

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