1999.115: Untitled
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.115
- People
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Eva Hesse, American (Hamburg, Germany 1936 - 1970 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1963-64
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191381
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and black ink on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15.8 × 15.2 cm (6 1/4 × 6 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- gallery label: center top of frame backing board: Eva Hesse/UNTITLED/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6"; 16.5 x 15.2 cm./HESS-0612
- gallery label: center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6 inches
- stamp: lower center of frame backing board, blue ink: ROBERT MILLER GALLERY/41 EAST 57th STREET/NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022
- gallery label: lower center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/gouache on paper/6-1/2 x 6 inches/EH99 3
- inscription: lower center of backing board of frame, black ink: HESS-0612
- stamp: l.l. corner of frame backing board, black ink: Image of two armadillos
- stamp: lower center of frame backing board, black ink: knight works inc./conservation matting & framing
- stamp: l.r. corner of frame backing board, black ink: DENGLAS/DENG [remaining text cut-off by masking tape]
- label: u.r. corner of frame backing board: red circular label
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California]. [Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York]. [Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.
NOTE: Provenance information derived from gallery labels on the backing board of the frame.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.115
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 54, 133, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 54 [detail], pl. 63 on p. 133
- Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 3, Page 54
Exhibition History
- Drawings from the 1960s: Jo Baer, Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse and Agnes Martin, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, 04/30/1999 - 05/29/1999
- 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
- Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
Verification Level
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