1989.53: Hands (The Mediation between Above and Below)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1989.53
- People
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Sigmar Polke, German (Oels, Germany (now Olesnica, Poland) 1941 - 2010 Cologne, Germany)
- Title
- Hands (The Mediation between Above and Below)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Hände (Die Vermittlung zwischen dem Oberen und dem Unteren)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1973
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221544
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Offset photolithograph printed in black ink on patterned off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Photolithograph
- Dimensions
- sheet: 45.5 x 62.6 cm (17 15/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.r.: S. Polke
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Becker 29
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
- Copyright
- © The Estate of Sigmar Polke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany
- Accession Year
- 1989
- Object Number
- 1989.53
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The pre-printed pattern of the paper support is an "elephant skin pattern."
Publication History
- Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 93, ill.
Exhibition History
- Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/17/2005 - 02/26/2006
Verification Level
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