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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR57.38
People
Ewald Mataré, German (Aachen, Germany 1887 - 1965 Büderich, near Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title
Grazing Cow
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Grasende Kuh II
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1930 (cast later)
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223561

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
sight: 16.6 x 26.2 x 9.2 cm (6 9/16 x 10 5/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on bottom of plinth, ink, handwritten: 1957.38
  • stamp: on bottom of plinth, ink: Galerie Alex Vömel // Düsseldorf
  • inscription: under neck of cow, incised: [artist's stamp]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Copyright
© Ewald Mataré / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
BR57.38
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 20, repr. p. 79 as fig. 146
  • Sabine Maja Schilling, Ewald Mataré, das plastische Werk: Werkverzeichnis, Wienand Verlag (Cologne, 1987), no. 64a
  • 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. 94

Verification Level

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